Our Team

Your vet is Jose Messa, MRCVS
Veterinary Surgeon & Joint Venture Partner

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Jose qualified in Madrid in 1994 and moved to England shortly after for what was supposed to be a 12 month professional development experience.
16 years later he is now the Practice Director at the Basingstoke Companion Care Surgery which he and his team opened in 2004.
His wealth of experience comes from having had the possibility of working with excellent colleagues, good professionals and invaluable Nurses throughout the years, initially in the North of England and, afterwards, in a lovely Veterinary Hospital on the South Coast.  Having sport very high on his list of priorities, his family is the real passion of his life .

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Fran Carmona
Joint Venture Partner
Fran qualified in Madrid in 1994 and moved to England shortly after to start her professional career.
She worked near Manchester for two years, before moving down south. Fran helped to develop the first Joint Venture Companion Care practice in Portsmouth.
She took a career break to raise her two children and has now come back to work part-time. Although she has always been a helping hand during busy times since we first opened our surgery in 2004.

Sabina Prasad MRCVS
Veterinary Surgeon
I graduated in Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandary from Birsa Agricultural University (India) in 1999.  I received a Junior Research fellowship from the Indian council of Agricultural Research    (ICAR)  to to my post graduate study. I did my masters in Anatomy , Pathology and Surgery from CCS Haryana Agricultural University in 2001 . My research was an interesting study on camel lungs. I came to live in UK with my husband and passed my statutory MRCVS exams, and I have worked and lived in Newcastle and London before joining this practice in 2009 .
My interest is in internal medicine, especially endocrinology  and feline medicine . Outside work I am a keen amateur gardener, violinist,  and have a long list of things to learn. I live in Fleet with my husband and my two very adorable cats Billy and Bobby .

Slawomir Pasko MRCVS
Veterinary Surgeon

Louise Henry BSc (Mar Biol) PhD MVB MRCVS
Veterinary Surgeon
Since qualifying from University College Dublin in 2007, Louise has worked with all kinds of animal, from cats and dogs to horses and even sharks!  Her first job was in a mixed animal practice in Cornwall.  In her next job Louise had the opportunity to work for 2 years as an aquaculture vet with Vet Aqua International, the only dedicated aquaculture vet practice in Southern Ireland.  This involved treating both farmed fish and aquarium fish and utilised her previous training as a Marine Biologist.  While her role as fish vet was challenging and interesting, Louise missed working with the fluffy furries.  She returned to working mostly with small animals in a mixed animal practice in Wales in 2010.  Following a year as veterinary intern at a referral centre in Surrey Louise spent 6 months working for the PDSA charity.  She is interested in both medicine and surgery, and is looking forward to starting postgraduate studies in internal medicine in 2013.  Louise is very happy to have recently joined the team at CCBasingstoke and is looking forward to meeting all her new clients and their pets!  In her spare time Louise enjoys kayaking, swimming and yoga.

Adena Adams  RVN
Veterinary Nurse

Michelle Walker RVN
Veterinary Nurse
Michelle firstly completed her national diploma in animal care in 1998 with a merit. She went on to work and train as a Veterinary Nurse qualifying from  Berkshire College of Agriculture in 2002 with a credit.
She joined Companion Care Basingstoke in 2009 working part time. Her main interest at work is feline behaviour and in August 2011 was awarded a distinction in advance feline friendly nursing.
Outside work Michelle is married and a mum of two children.
She has 2 cats, 4 chickens, a rescue dog called Ruby and a pony whom she rides along with her children who also enjoy horse riding.

Natalie Green RVN
Veterinary Nurse
Natalie has been working with us since the very beginning of our surgery back in October 2004.
She qualified as a Veterinary Nurse in 2009.
At work she is very keen in orthopaedic surgical cases and loves dealing with the general public and their pets.  Outside work she likes socializing and shopping!  She has 2 rabbits at home, Molly and Monty.

Chloe Egerton RVN
Veterinary Nurse
Chloe qualified in 2011 with a Foundation degree in Veterinary Nursing Science. She has worked in Companion Care since 2010 and at Basingstoke Companion Care since November 2011. At work she is most interested in surgical nursing, in patient care and imaging techniques.
Chloe lives in Romsey on a small holding with her partner. Together they breed pedigree Tamworth pigs, chickens, peafowl and every year they rear 500 free range Bronze Turkeys for Christmas. Chloe has a very naughty Bengal cat called Tilly and a retired Springer spaniel called Jen. She also has 2 Kune Kune pigs called Onion and Spinach who believe they are pets.
In her free time Chloe enjoys horse riding.

Emma Goater RVN
Veterinary Nurse

Rachel Brant RVN
Veterinary Nurse

Kirsty Quince
Receptionist
Kirsty has been employed with Companion Care since January 2006.
At home she has two older children and a crazy rescue springer spaniel who keeps her busy!
In her spare time she enjoys socializing and regular boot-camp sessions.
Kirsty enjoys her job and still learns something new every day.

Liz Gauntlett
Receptionist
Liz is originally from South Wales and moved to Basingstoke 20 years ago.  Liz has worked at Companion Care Basingstoke since September 2008. She was previously one of our clients with her two Labradors (Ruby & Sapphire) for many years.  Liz loves her work, meeting the clients and their well loved pets. In her spare time Liz enjoys long walks in the New Forest with her family and dogs.                             

Emma Jayne Campbell
Receptionist
Emma Jayne has worked at the practice since November 2010.  Emma Jayne has always had a love of animals. She has worked in a boarding kennels and as an assistant in her local veterinary surgery during school holidays and weekends.  She trained and worked as a physiotherapist, however decided she wanted to go back to her roots and retrained as an animal physiotherapist, qualifying in June 2012. Emma Jayne enjoys her job, in particular meeting all the four legged clients. She is the proud owner of a Siberian husky, Sox.  In her spare time, Emma Jayne enjoys running with Sox; and reading.        

Alex Cowley
Receptionist
Alex has worked for Companion Care since January 2011. She enjoys meeting the many different patients and has a soft spot for chocolate Labradors like her own Malty. As well as working at Companion Care Alex has set-up a business as a children’s photographer. She has ignored the saying never work with children or animals and loves working with both! In her spare time she enjoys dog walking & seeing friends and is kept busy by her young son who is always into mischief.  

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