Vets Costs - A Disgraceful Professional Scam
I have recently been involved with a friend who had to have her dog attended to and then later her pet parrot.
The dog cost her around £300 plus and the parrot around the same. £100 for an overnight stay ! At the London Hilton ? No, just a vets back room, unattended !
The cost of having the privileged pleasure of owning a pet and ensuring its medical health in todays world of veterinary sharks is atrocious. We are at the mercy of greedy individuals who have no feeling for either the animals or their poor owners and have this compelling idea that they should earn the same salaries as NHS doctors and consultants.
It is about time the Government legislated a limited pricing policy for the veterinary profession.
As stated in the Vet Futures report, veterinary salary packages range from £31,150 for newly qualified vets to £69,021 for vets qualified more than 20 years. This is surprising to some, who imagine veterinary and human medical earnings to be comparable. Hospital consultants earn a basic salary of £75,249 to £101,451, depending on length of service.
Here is some reading providing an insight to this legalised robbery -
https://www.tescobank.com/pet-insurance/guides/average-treatment-costs/
https://www.confused.com/pet-insurance/guides/vet-treatment-prices
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35524322
https://www.standard.co.uk/esmoney/pet-insurance/vet-prices-b939209.html
The dog cost her around £300 plus and the parrot around the same. £100 for an overnight stay ! At the London Hilton ? No, just a vets back room, unattended !
The cost of having the privileged pleasure of owning a pet and ensuring its medical health in todays world of veterinary sharks is atrocious. We are at the mercy of greedy individuals who have no feeling for either the animals or their poor owners and have this compelling idea that they should earn the same salaries as NHS doctors and consultants.
It is about time the Government legislated a limited pricing policy for the veterinary profession.
As stated in the Vet Futures report, veterinary salary packages range from £31,150 for newly qualified vets to £69,021 for vets qualified more than 20 years. This is surprising to some, who imagine veterinary and human medical earnings to be comparable. Hospital consultants earn a basic salary of £75,249 to £101,451, depending on length of service.
Here is some reading providing an insight to this legalised robbery -
https://www.tescobank.com/pet-insurance/guides/average-treatment-costs/
https://www.confused.com/pet-insurance/guides/vet-treatment-prices
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35524322
https://www.standard.co.uk/esmoney/pet-insurance/vet-prices-b939209.html
