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We would like to reassure all our clients that the steps that we have taken are to protect your health, your business and the health of our employees. The actions taken will have no detrimental effect to our ability to carry out visits, post-mortems, testing or supply of vaccines/medication.
In order to continue business as normal whilst protecting everyone as much as can we will need to ask that you work with us to ensure the following.
If you require medication/vaccines
Please ring in advance and place the order. This will allow us time to prepare the goods for collection to minimise the time spent in the practice.
Where possible we would prefer to send these orders to you direct (post will be charged at cost price).
- Please place orders as early in the week (vaccines and supplements) as possible to allow plenty of time for delivery
If you require PM
Please contact the practice in advanced as soon as possible in the day. The administration team will allocate a Vet to contact you to discuss the best course of action which maybe a visit rather than coming to the practice
Until further notice ‘open’ PM times will cease and we would urge you to get any birds for PM to our practices as early in the day as possible
If you require a visit
Please contact the practice as soon as possible in the day. The administration team will allocate a Vet to contact you to arrange an appropriate time
If you are self-isolating or at risk
Please do not attend the practice and call your local office letting the administration team know. We will then take appropriate steps with yourself and the Vet to ensure all parties are as safe as possible whilst we deal with any issues you have with your animals
If you need to visit the practice
If you are requiring a PM please drop the birds in the bins provided
If you wish to wait for the results of the PM please, where possible return to your vehicle
Please, if entering the building use sanitisers provided
What PHS is doing
Vaccines and medication
Although we have been told that there are no supply issues of vaccines and medications in the UK there is a slight risk that delivery drivers will be affect as such we are holding and will continue to hold approx. 3 months of stock in practice
Practices
In most cases only one Vet will be in the practice and a skeleton administration team at any one time. All other team members will be remotely working carrying out visits/working from home. We are hoping that by limiting contact between colleagues we will help prevent the spread of the virus if we are unfortunate enough to have employees infected. As our practices are geographically based some distance from each other we have banned face to face contact with other practices and those working from home will be required to self-isolate during working hours
A rigorous cleaning schedule has been drawn up to ensure all ‘multi touch area’s’ are cleaned 3 times a day. This is in addition to the normal daily cleaning that is carried out
Contact
Other than employees and clients we will not allow visits to the practice from students, pharmaceutical companies etc
All training programmes have been cancelled for the foreseeable future
No travel unless visiting clients
Self-isolation
PHS are abiding by the Government guidelines and will self-isolate if show any symptoms of the virus or have been in close contact with someone with the virus
Should an employee show any symptoms of the virus and go into self-isolation any clients that have been in physical contact with this person will be contacted
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Together we can continue to drive your business whilst protecting us all and we thank you in advance for your assistance during this unprecedent difficult time.