Our Staff

Mr Barry Arundel BVetMed MRCVS, Partner Barry was born in Bristol and raised in Bedford where he attended Bedford Modern School before getting his Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine degree at London University. He gained distinctions in three of the four disciplines and was awarded the prestigious Fitzwygram First Prize in a nationwide examination set by the RCVS. He has been with the practice over thirty years having joined in 1977. He lives in Alverstoke with his two Border terriers, his Burmilla cat and his tortoises which he has successfully bred in the past. He has two children, Charles and Bethan. His main leisure time interests are sport - golf, tennis, skiing, and woodcarving.

Mr Dai Lloyd Jones BVM&S MRCVS, Partner Dai was brought up in farming community in West Wales. He attended Lampeter County School before going to the Royal ‘Dick’ Veterinary College, Edinburgh in 1968. After his qualification in 1973 he spent a year in practice in the UK and then travelled extensively abroad, working in Iran, New Zealand, South Africa and Germany. He is married to Cissy, also a Vet in this practice, having met in Capetown. He has three children. Dai has been with this practice since 1980. Golf is his main leisure pursuit, he still attempts to play cricket, but has given up watching Wales play rugby as it was bad for his health.

Honor Reader BVSc MRCVS, Partner Honor graduated from Liverpool University in 1996 and since August of that year has worked for the practice. In January 2001 she secretly got married to Tom, a computer consultant, and they currently live in Lee-on-the-Solent. They have two rescue Labradors, “Tessa” and “Rosie”, and a 3-legged cat called Guinness (black & white, no surprises!). Honor has “dabbled” in sailing and windsurfing, but mainly in her spare time enjoys walking the dogs, cycling and line-dancing. Honor has become a partner in January 2003.

Filippa Worton BVetMed MRCVS, Partner Filippa was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and came to London in 1991. She qualified from the Royal Veterinary School in 1996. After working in a farm and small animal practice in the Cotswolds for a few years she joined the Alver Veterinary Group in 2000 and has been a partner since January 2003. Filippa is married to Nicholas with two little girls.

Mr Bill Cunningham BVSc CertSAO MRCVS Assistant and referral Veterinary Surgeon for orthopaedics. Bill graduated in 1979 from Liverpool University and worked for the PDSA for many years in the Portsmouth region. He was an active member of the Southern region of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association and was the secretary for several years. He gained his Certificate in Small Animal Orthopaedics in 1987. He is married with two children and has been with this practice since autumn 1999.

Barbara Healy MVB MRCVS Barbara qualified from the University College Dublin in 1996 and started working for the practice in January 2005. She has a lurcher called Aisling (pronounced Ashleen), an Irish name meaning 'dream woman'! Barbara lives in Gosport and in her free time she goes running (much slower than the dog) and cycling.

Cissy Lloyd Jones DrMedVet MRCVS, Assistant Cissy’s real name is actually Mechthild, which is German, but nobody in the UK can pronounce it. She qualified in Munich in 1972, and worked in the pharmaceutical industry in Germany for several years. She got to know small animal work first in a very busy practice in Cape Town, South Africa - quite an experience for somebody from the Black Forest: her first patient was a cape-penguin! In Cape Town she also met her husband Dai, who was just “passing through” on his way from Wales, Iran and New Zealand. Cissy joined the practice in 1980 and has been working part-time since then.