After having intercalated in Molecular Therapeutics at Bart’s Medical School London, Delphine graduated from Bristol University in 2014. Initially working as a volunteer for SPANA in Morocco, she undertook an equine internship before coming back to Bristol University to do research in sedation and premedication in dogs.

Following an anaesthesia internship at Liege, in July 2020 Delphine completed her Specialist training (residency) in anaesthesia and analgesia at Bristol University. Delphine joined Highcroft Vet Referrals and passed her European Diploma exams in December 2021.
Recently, Delphine has become head of the anaesthesia department for Highcroft Referrals, which is moving to a brand-new hospital in April called Bristol Vet Specialists.

Andrew graduated from the University of Bristol in 2015. After completing a rotating internship at a Referral centre in Bristol, he stayed on for a further year as an Anaesthesia and Internal Medicine associate, working under the referral team. Andrew has had a passion for Anaesthesia since clinical rotations at vet school and in 2017, started his specialist anaesthesia training at The Royal Veterinary College, London. Following specialist training he continued as a senior clinician at the RVC, gaining European specialist status in November 2021.

Andrew has particular interest and experience in managing critically ill patients, particularly those following trauma, as well as those with advanced respiratory and cardiac disease. He has published research in a number of areas, focussing mostly on ultrasound-guided locoregional anaesthesia. These skills allow for advanced management of both acute and chronic pain.

Carly qualified as a veterinary nurse in 2005 and spent her first 9 years working in a variety of different environments including first opinion practice, emergency, and referral practice. From 2014 – 2017 Carly spent three years working as an anaesthesia nurse at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals at the Royal Veterinary College. Following this she went on to be involved in the set-up of a brand-new referral centre in Leeds. She then spent a year lecturing veterinary nurse students in an agricultural college in Sussex before joining the team at Aura Veterinary (formerly known as Fitzpatrick Oncology and Soft Tissue). Soon after starting at Aura, she was promoted to Head RVN. She remained in this position for nearly 3 years and has only recently undertaken a new role as Clinical Operations Team Leader at Dick White Referrals.

During her career, Carly has undertaken and successfully achieved numerous additional qualifications including the Vets Now Emergency and Critical Care certificate, the Veterinary Technician Specialist (VTS) status in Anaesthesia and Analgesia, the Diploma in Advanced Veterinary Nursing at Harper Adams University and the Level 3 Award in Leadership and Management.

After graduating from Nottingham in 2013, Nick worked in mixed practice in Staffordshire for 4 years before becoming a full-time small animal locum vet. After a year off travelling including working at a charity clinic in Malawi he returned and has continued working as a locum throughout the West Midlands as well as representing the region on BVA council for the last 3 years.

Nick has a keen interest in first opinion anaesthesia and looks to help improve this to help improve outcomes and confidence in general practice. This interest is spurred on by an ever so slightly competitive nature with his human anaesthetist wife alongside which he has spoken at human anaesthesia conferences on comparative anaesthesia.