08/10/2025
A lot of you may already know this but over the past couple of years Magnolia House Veterinary Clinic has gone above and beyond for all our animals (even the ones we don’t show) and now they need signatures! Please see the link, have a read and sign!
Many thanks
URGENT ACTION NEEDED:
Edit: Updated with hopefully working link.
https://www.change.org/p/grant-access-to-independent-vets-to-the-cma-s-unredacted-pdr?recruited_by_id=32075e90-a36a-11f0-a1d1-292565a5b798&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink
The Veterinary Sector has been hugely corporatised in the last few decades with 60% of all vet practices now owned by one of six companies. Locally more than half the practices in the area are corporate owned.
The Competion and Markets Authority (CMA) has been investigating the sector with the goal to improve competitiveness and ensure fairness to clients.
However,
throughout the process, the CMA have heavily focused on the opinions of the big 6 corporate groups - assuming these represent the whole industry.
Independent practices have struggled to have their voice heard.
The latest update is that the Provisional Decision Report (PDR) is going to be shared with only these big 6 corporate groups, for them to assess and respond.
This will shape the decisions that are made, and it is simply not representative of the whole industry. This will likely have a huge negative impact on independent practices such as ourselves.
In true government consulting style news of this broke yesterday and we have until 10am tomorrow (Thursday 9th) to respond. We attach a link to a petition. for your consideration.
Thank you for your time
Stan and Dalya
LINK:
https://chng.it/VQJR9VSG9
Attribution:
Independence by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Pix4free
