Endell Equine Hospital

11/11/2025

A beautiful picture and a beautiful sentiment

This we honour the men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice, and the animals who served alongside them in conflict.

We will remember them.

20/10/2025

Phones back online, call as normal. 01722 710046

16/10/2025

Teamwork at its finest

Our surgery specialist, Andrew Jones, is performing an exploratory laparotomy alongside veterinarian Axelle Hassenforder. Sonia Gonzalez-Medina, our internal medicine specialist, is observing from the side. Together, the three veterinarians—surgeons and medic—are carefully assessing the integrity of the structures and forming a unified plan for the best course of treatment.

14/10/2025

✨A case story✨ A New Forest mare presented out of hours with symptoms of colic, requiring emergency surgery at 3 am and intensive post-operative care. Read the slides to learn about her successful recovery back home🐴

25/09/2025

We’d like to talk about interns today and what an important role they play at Endell Equine Hospital.

Interns are qualified veterinary surgeons who are employed for a year to work at the hospital. During the year they gain a huge amount of practical experience, allowing them to hone their skills before embarking on their future career.

Their role is so varied, including: admitting and initial assessments of our inpatients, carrying out treatment plans and giving medications, performing anaesthesia, applying dressings, taking X-rays, running lab samples, assisting with surgical procedures. The list is endless!

They also work day and night with very little time off in their diaries. All this whilst completing their vet GDP (core skills they have to have signed off in their first few years of practice).

We employ 2 interns at Endell Equine hospital and we would be lost without them. So we want to take the time to shout out to our 2 leaving interns; Liv and Beccah who are starting the next chapter in their careers. And give a warm welcome to Kathryn who has joined us this month on the first rung of her career ladder.

16/09/2025

Great news! 📣

Our Endell Equine Hospital is launching a new Equine Internal Medicine Service, offering a comprehensive and specialist-led approach to the diagnosis, treatment and management of complex equine medical conditions.

The service is being spearheaded by our new colleague, Dr. Sonia Gonzalez-Medina, a board-certified American Specialist in Large Animal Internal Medicine, whose extensive international experience and clinical knowledge bring an added level of excellence to our hospital.

Endell Equine has access to cutting-edge diagnostic tools — including videoendoscopy, ECG, ultrasound, radiography and an in-house laboratory — and is fully equipped to manage a wide range of medical presentations with precision and care. The new service will cover a broad spectrum of equine medical conditions, including:
• Respiratory disorders
• Weight-loss investigations
• Neurological evaluations
• Ophthalmology care
• Muscle disease diagnostics
• Dermatology services
• Liver and kidney disease assessments
• Endocrinology consults
• Poor performance evaluations
• Outbreak management for infectious diseases
• Critical care for foals
• Recurrent colic investigations
• Cardiac diagnostics

Sonia brings a wealth of experience to the role. A graduate of the University of Córdoba, Spain, she has trained and worked across Europe and the USA, including at the Animal Health Trust, The Royal Veterinary College, Colorado State University and Nottingham University. Her clinical interests span neurology, ophthalmology, muscular disorders, and infectious diseases, and she is widely recognised for her contributions to equine research.

She also continues to contribute to ongoing studies in exercise biomarkers, toxicology, and infectious disease management, and regularly presents her findings at national and international veterinary conferences. This ensures her services are not only clinically robust but also research-driven.

It's great to have you on board Sonia!

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28/08/2025

Some of our equine vets, nurses, yard managers and safety experts recently met with representatives from the University of Liverpool and helmet manufacturer Uvex to discuss one vital topic: The use of protective headwear to make equine veterinary work safer.

The meeting followed recently published CVS-funded research by Dr John Tulloch of the University of Liverpool which highlights the high risk of injury faced by equine vets & nurses. In response, CVS has introduced a mandatory helmet policy for all staff handling or treating horses. Colleagues have a choice of designs from riding helmets to specialist protective headwear worn by the emergency rescue services, but currently none are designed specifically for use by equine vets.

The group explored possible helmet design, shared first-hand experiences and talked about the cultural change needed across the industry to make helmet wearing the ‘norm’. They also learned from Uvex about safety standards and the rigorous testing behind protective helmets.

Change won’t happen overnight, but the message was clear: if helmet-wearing saves just one life or prevents a life-changing injury, it’s worth it.

What do you think? It would be great to hear your thoughts on this topic. Please feel free to add your comments below.

18/08/2025

Please welcome Sonia Gonzalez-Medina to the team at Endell Equine Hospital. Sonia joins us as our new specialist in internal medicine. She loves treating all horses from high performance to donkeys, and has a particular interest in ophthalmology and neurology, but enjoys all things medicine!

She’s looking forward to meeting you 🐎🫏🩺

11/08/2025

We wanted to say a huge congratulations to our surgical team. They reached a milestone number of surgeries yesterday and despite it being a middle of the night surgery you can see they are still smiling

Our hospital team are amazingly dedicated, providing 24 hour care for all our equine patients. Thank you so much to all of our vets, interns, nurses, patient care assistants, and grooms - You Rock!

05/08/2025

We are sure many of you have already seen this story about the stolen Shetland ponies from the New Forest, but lets help spread the word about these little guys, who need to find their way home. Please share on your social media

The six free-roaming ponies were thought to have been stolen from the New Forest earlier this month.