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Introduction
Inglis Veterinary Centres Ltd is a well-established veterinary business with seven centres throughout east central Scotland. The company, based in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, is one of eight Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons accredited veterinary hospitals in the UK.

Operations
Dunfermline Inglis Veterinary Hospital, Halbeath Road, Dunfermline, Fife, is a 24-hour animal hospital which provides a wide range of veterinary services, via both routine appointments and emergency care. The hospital has a team of ?? [number] vets and [number] veterinary nurses but visiting specialists cover areas including cardiology, orthopaedics, dermatology and rabbit and feline medicine. The hospital encompasses the Inglis Large Animal Practice, which has worked with farmers in Fife and surrounding areas for over 50 years. The company also has one other centre in Dunfermline, and others in Inverkeithing, Cowdenbeath , Kinross , Alloa and Edinburgh.

History
The company was founded in 1953. Inglis Loudon and Davidson

In 2011, Inglis split into two divisions, one for small animals and one for farm animals and horses. Inglis “Care and Save” clinic in High Street, Cowdenbeath, Fife, was officially opened in September 2012 by former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. This clinic offers discounted veterinary care and, in an arrangement with Edinburgh University's Royal (Dick) Veterinary School, supervised training for veterinary students. In February 2013, the company merged with Loch Leven Equine Practice, Kinross. In March 2014, the company opened its ground-breaking Inglis Vets Healthy Pets health and wellness centre in Dunfermline, the first of its kind in the UK, and in November 2015 opened Inglis Vets in Alloa, Clackmannanshire. In August 2016, the company's practice in Kinross moved to a new base in the town. In ?? [month and year], the company made its first foray into Edinburgh, taking over Alan Brown Vets in the city's Corstorphine area.In October 2017, the company opened a surgery in Polbeth, West Lothian. In April 2016, Inglis announced a collaboration with The Pets'n'Family, a network of veterinary practices with surgeries in and around Glasgow, to offer a new veterinary graduate training programme. Inglis employee Audrey Kelly won the Vet Nurse of the Year Award in the Petplan Veterinary Awards 2015. Inglis won the Veterinary Marketing Agency - Practice Marketing Award 2016. Inglis' 24-hour animal hospital was awarded the title 'Best Scottish Vet' in the annual Vet Help Direct Awards in both 2016 and 2017. It also ranked third place in the Best UK Vet category in 2017, with competition from over 3,000 practices across the UK.

Charitable work
In November 2010, Inglis set up an initiative in Dunfermline, Fife, with help from Dr Neil Hamlet, consultant in public health at NHS Fife, whereby homeless people could be given a medical check-up while their dogs received a free veterinary consultation. In January 2011, Inglis sponsored the screening in the Scottish Parliament of a film made in Dunfermline by and about homeless people. In May 2012, Inglis launched its continuing relationship with a veterinary charity based in Malawi, when a team from the company helped to equip and train staff at Lilongwe Society for the Protection of Animals SPCA), in the country's capital city. Inglis' efforts were subsequently praised in a motion tabled in the Scottish Parliament by then MSP John Park. In September 2012, Inglis sealed a 'twinning' arrangement with Lilongwe SPCA. Since then Inglis' employees have been on several similar missions to Lilongwe, and in November 2014 Inglis' chief operating officer, Adam Tjolle, and Lilongwe SPCA's then programme director, Dr Richard Ssuna, exchanged roles for a month . Inglis and Lilongwe SPCA have also despatched text books and equipment to the veterinary school at the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Media
Inglis Veterinary Centres have featured in a number of television programmes over the years, including CBBC's 'Dick and Dom Go Wild' and BBC 2's 'More Creatures Great and Small'.

Key people
Chief executive officer and principal shareholder Adam Tjolle, an honorary fellow of the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, who graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 1994. He started in mixed practice in Ross-on-Wye, and then moved to the RSPCA’s Animal Hospital in Putney, where he worked for over four years before moving to Inglis 15 years ago. Ronnie Soutar, formerly director of veterinary services at Edinburgh University, was appointed Inglis' chief operating officer in May 2016. Other shareholders are Ken Davison, ???