50th Golden Anniversary Veterinary Cardiovascular Society meeting
Date: Thursday November 06, 2025
Location: Chesford Grange Hotel, Warwickshire
Thursday November 6th (BEVA),
Friday November 7th & Saturday November 8th VCS.
REGISTRATION OPENS JUNE (see below for details on how to register)
We are delighted to announce the 50th Anniversary November meeting of the VCS in association with the British Equine Veterinary Association.
Join us for three days of world class veterinary cardiology and an anniversary celebration.
The BEVA equine cardiology day focuses on a practical approach to equine arrythmias and the challenges these pose to horses, riders and vets. “When the beat goes wrong”. Horses provide great comparative cardiology insight and the program will be accessible and of interest to all cardiologists.
The VCS days include historical perspectives on veterinary cardiology and interventional procedures with a look to the future – how should we audit our successes and failures? Presentations include clinical perspectives on acute deterioration in cats and sedation / anaesthesia of cats with heart disease as well as case reports and updates from the ECVIM / ACVIM meetings. We’ll look at how we balance clinical developments with practicalities with an expert panel discussion: What is gold standard cardiology?
We are pleased to again host a separate nurse stream for the growing number of cardiology focused nurses who are increasingly integral to veterinary cardiology services. Topics include setting up cardiac clinics, cardiac anaesthesia, heart sounds and nurse case reports.
Our commercial sponsors will be on hand to discuss how they can support you in your work and we will again showcase poster presentations which we encourage you to contribute to, whether from first opinion or referral.
Lastly there will be the breed screening meeting and our annual general meeting.
This year will mark the 50th anniversary of the VCS and we want to make it our biggest meeting yet, welcoming members old and new. Come and catch up with friends on Thursday evening, then celebrate on Friday with live music from Loxley’s Nutts accompanied by some well-known society faces. Ride the bucking bronco and dress smart to impress with a gold theme and prizes for the best turned out!
The meeting will be at our regular venue – the centrally located Chesford Grange Spa Hotel near Kenilworth in Warwickshire. There will be an option to include accommodation in the Chesford Grange Hotel with your congress ticket. Kenilworth offers a variety of local attractions, restaurants and accommodation if you want to stay and explore further afield.
We hope you can join in person but if not we will offer the option to register for online access to meeting recordings, available after the event exclusively for one year.
REGISTRATION.
Tickets must be purchased through the members section of the website.
To enter the members section, you will need to SIGN IN to your account with your email. All members who have paid membership renewal or joined VCS since September 2023 will have an account on this new website. However, the password is not the one that you used on the old website and you will need to reset it. You will be prompted to renew your membership if it is due.
If you haven’t paid membership to VCS since September 2023 or have never been a VCS member you can register in the membership section under ‘buy a membership’.
Your unique member ID number can be found in your account under MY MEMBERSHIP. Please enter this when registering for the meeting.
Via CONTACT US please message Vicky (treasurer) if you have any difficulties. We appreciate your patience while the new system is set up, allowing VCS to keep accurate records of membership.
TRAVEL
As always please try and join us by sustainable travel options wherever possible.
Please see the link for some information on train travel.
I Came By Train | Sustainable Travel | Green Low Carbon Trains (thetrainline.com
Digital proceedings for the meeting will be available to download from the day before the meeting.