Meet the Team
Introducing The Beech House Veterinary Team with their best animal impressions!
Beech House Veterinary Centre has four full time and one part time Veterinary Surgeons. Each vet shares their time between consulting at one of the four Beech House branches, and operating at the Hersham hospital. We run our own emergency service through the night and at weekends, so even when we are closed, it will be one of our vets who you will see in an emergency.
Charlie- Goat
Charlie grew up in Dorset and studied Veterinary Science at Bristol Veterinary School, graduating in 2004. He started at Beech House Veterinary Centre in 2007 and was promoted to the position of Head Vet in 2009. Charlie holds an RCVS Certificate in Ophthalmology and takes in house referrals and cases from neighbouring practices. If you would like advice on a case, see our Ophthalmology page.
Mel-Dog
Mel graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 2007 with a degree in Veterinary Medicine. Originally from Virginia in the USA she immigrated to the UK to complete her veterinary degree and loved it here so much she decided to stay! Mel joined Beech House Veterinary Centre in October 2010 and has a special interest in soft tissue surgery and exotics.
JennyPhillips-Hamster
Jenny graduated from Cambridge in 1984 with a degree in Veterinary Science and a Masters in Applied Biology. Jenny has been a vet at Beech House Veterinary Centre since 2001. She now works at Beech House part time, primarily consulting at our Cobham surgery. Previous to joining us at Beech House, Jenny ran her own practice for 10 years and worked for the Animal Samaritans in her spare time.
Lucy-Fish
James-Meerkat
James is originally from Woking. He qualified from Bristol in July 2011 and joined the Beech House Team in August. He is covering for Lucy while she is away on sabbatical. James enjoys all aspects of small animal medicine. He plays football and golf in his spare time.
Miranda - Bat
Miranda grew up in Hampshire. She qualified from Bristol Veterinary School in 2009. After working in mixed animal practice for her first year, Miranda joined the Beech House Veterinary Team in October 2011. Outside of veterinary medicine she enjoys running and skiing.
Lucy-FishLucy is originally from Birmingham, she graduated from the Royal Veterinary College, University of London, in 2007, with a degree in Veterinary Medicine. Lucy started at Beech House Veterinary Centre in February 2009 and has a particular interest in orthopaedic surgery, but enjoys all aspects of small animal first opinion practice. Lucy is currently on sabattical, travelling the world and will be back in March.
The Beech House nursing team consists of five qualified, registered nurses and one student nurse. The nurses primarily work at the Hersham hospital caring for a range of medical and surgical patients, as well as running free nurse clinics. As Beech House Veterinary Centre has its own emergency clinic, if your pet is poorly overnight or at the weekend, it will be one of our nurses who will look after them.
Lindsey-TurtleHead Nurse Lindsey qualified as a veterinary nurse in 2005 and spent the first part of her career in referral practice working alongside specialist small animal vets.
Lindsey started at Beech House Veterinary in Sept 2009 and she now heads up the nursing team. She is interested in advances in pain management and anaesthesia.
Sarah-Monkey
Completed her training at BHVC and qualified as a veterinary nurse in 2008, after starting as a student 2006. She is currently working towards a small animal behaviour diploma.
Sarah runs the weekly puppy playschool supervising puppy socialisation and giving advice to new puppy owners. She also works at London Zoo at weekends, caring for a host of exotic species from meercats and monkeys, to giant tortoises and stingrays!
Kelly-Gerbil
Kelly qualified as a veterinary nurse in 2006 and joined BHVC in August 2010. She is Beech House Nursing Team's clinical coach and is supervising Lisa and Chloe's nurse training. She enjoys nurse clinics and especially working with our senior patients to ensure they enjoy their retirement years!
Lisa-Snake
Lisa is a student veterinary nurse in her 2nd year of training. She qualified as an animal nurse assistant in 2008. Lisa attends college once a week where she is learning small animal anatomy and physiology to complement her practical skills gained at Beech House Veterinary Centre.
Chloe-Starling
Chloe started on the reception team at Beech House Veterinary Centre in March 2010. She spent a year getting a feel for the profession before making a leap into the nursing team. She is starting her student veterinary nurse training and will be attending collage one day a week.
Sam-Pig
Sam qualified as a veterinary nurse in 1998 and started at Beech House Veterinary Centre in 2008. Sam works part-time two days a week, after returning to work from maternity leave. She has an interest in dog behaviour, and for the past few years has been part of the veterinary team at Crufts Dog Show. Interestingly she also trained and owned some of the dogs in the Harry Potter films!
Kylee-Rabbit
Kylee completed her training at Beech House Veterinary Centre and qualified as a veterinary nurse in 2006. Kylee returned to the team in Aug 2009 and is currently on maternity leave, after giving birth to a little baby girl in January 2011.
The reception team at Beech House Veterinary Centre are normally the voice on the end of the phone or the first faces greeting you and your pet as you come through the door, at each of our branches.
Stephanie-Turkey
Stephanie became a member of the Beech House Reception Team in February 2011. She is based mainly at the Hersham branch. Stephanie has been working in the veterinary industry for three years. She is currently training to become a Suitably Qualified Person (SQP) in the dispensing of veterinary medicines.
Jenny-Cat
Jenny is the longest standing member of Beech House with a total of 14 years service under her belt! The past six years Jenny has headed up running the Cobham branch of Beech House Veterinary Centre.
Louise-DeerLouise joined the Beech House Reception team in June 2011, based mainly at the Hersham branch. She enjoys horse riding and walking her dog in her spare time.
Janet-Pelican
Janet shares the role of Shepperton receptionist and has worked at Beech House Veterinary Centre since October 2008.
Natalie-Chimpanzee
Natalie worked for 10 years as a dental nurse before deciding on a career change to combine her love of people and animals. Natalie started as a receptionist at the Hersham branch of Beech House Veterinary Centre in March 2010. She has recently moved over to head up the Thames Ditton branch.
Helen-Crocodile
Helen joined Beech House Veterinary Centre in September 2011. She is one of the receptionist at the Shepperton branch. She has a special interest in reptiles and owns a variety of scaly friends including bearded dragons, snakes, geckos and frogs.
The Beech House management team endeavour to ensure client and patient care is maintained to the highest level across the four Beech House branch practices.
Jamie-DonkeyAs Practice Director, Jamie took over the family business in 2005, following in his father’s footsteps. He graduated from Bristol University in 1993 with a degree in Veterinary Science. The majority of his time is spent overseeing the smooth running of the four Beech House practices to ensure the high standard of veterinary and client care is maintained, while also supporting the clinical staff on occasions. His glamorous side sees Jamie working on film sets, ensuring the welfare of animals used in television production.
Stella- Rabbit
Stella has a retail background and joined the Beech House Team as practice manager in 2007.
She is now the overall practice co-ordinator and is responsible for keeping all members of the Beech House Team smiling!
Jane-Stag
Jane is the Beech House accounts manager and joined BHVC in 2006. Jane is kept busy in the office organising the financial aspects of the business. She is currently in her third year of a five year degree course, to become a qualified accountant.
A team of part-time admin assistants ensures Beech House Veterinary Centre provides excellent client communication and patient records.
Maureen-Dog Charlotte-Elephant