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A gross over-reaction.

CVSG are in 4 countries for starters - this is only relevant to UK.

They'll find out that costs have gone up because of the bleeding obvious - increased number of pets due to Covid (yes, Covid pets are a thing - OH is seeing them, in many cases dogs that WILL prove very expensive over the years, pugs, boxers etc) and Brexit (a large proportion of vets working in the Uk were EU nationals - quite a lot went home)

It's basic supply (down) and demand (up). If OH had not moved to a better paying practice she'd be on £55k - with almost 30 years experience. She works 4 x 10 hour days - often longer, unpaid, plus some weekend work. She'd be paid double as a GP.

She moved jobs, and is paid £10k+ more. Still not great for her qualifications and experience. She sees job adverts - salaries are increasing, but still at only around inflation if lucky

Oh - and meds have increased significantly in price - not much vets can do about that

All CMA will find is that competition is rather opaque in places - prices will not be affected. The underlying fundamentals for these companies will not be affected. They had widespread BUY recommendations before this - a bargain now

€33? For that job the cat would have to be heavily sedated or more likely anaesthetized - not like you can ask a cat to "open wide". OH saw a case where a dog supposed had had plaque removed - by the groomer - and virtually nothing had been done. Maybe £900 is high (but it depends) but €33 is not a job done properly

BTW - Vet fees - only 20% goes too the VET - approx 20% VAT, 20% meds, 20% support staff, 20% facility.

Other half is a vet. There are two reasons why fees are increasing - well 3...

The first two: Covid - lots of new pets, and Brexit - lots of EU vets leaving. My OHs salary has gone up by maybe 25% in 3 years - but only by moving jobs. There is a severe vet shortage, caused by those two reasons. And there's quite a bit of burn out - many graduates (after 5 or 6 years) don't last more than a few years.

Only now is her salary getting to a reasonable level - 3 years ago, aged 50, she was on £53k - which was poor given 6 year degree and 25+ years experience

The other reason is the cost of meds is soaring.

I bought shares after the dip yesterday and will do so again. The most that that will be found is that there's some lack of transparency on who owns what; the rest is supply and demand, caused in large part by this government

Soirot will often be in Cambridge anyway

And AZ have a daily shuttle from Cambridge Airport to Gothenburg - or at least did a couple of years ago - I used it every 2 or 3 weeks for a while. It's a small Sun Air jet in BA livery

No 8.57 so it's already happened

New here from yesterday as was trying to get info on why Sareum was soaring.
Only had 25,000 from the listing on Primary Bid last year. Bought another 20,000 yesterday and today so still a very small holder in the scheme of things
Hoping Synairgen does something similar one day but many a false dawn with them