For one to one UK Vet assistance please contact Vet Mark at FIP Support UK (website www.fipsupportuk.com and email support@fipsupportuk.com).
This is information which we hope you will find helpful for accessing FIP treatment from your UK Vet.
For UK FIP treatment your Vet can access this from 2 UK pharmaceuticals:
Summit Veterinary Pharmaceuticals Limited www.svprx.co.uk
and
Bova UK bova.co.uk/about/bova-uk-team
The FIP medications available to UK Vets include:
*Remdesivir
*GS-441524 – available in both tablet and suspension (liquid) forms
*EIDD-1931 tablets
Official UK FIP owners’ guide
https://fipcatsuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/OwnersGuide-1.pdf
Official UK vet guide:
https://fipcatsuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/VetGuide-1.pdf
The price of medication from Vets significantly reduced in March 2023. We know owners are paying £20/21 per GS-441524 pill to some Vets.**
Please note: Vets can mark up medication as they wish.
Your Vet can contact UK Vet FIP experts:
Professor Danielle Gunn-Moore danielle.gunn-moore@ed.ac.uk
www.ed.ac.uk/profile/prof-danielle-gunn-moore
and
Sam Taylor, Séverine Tasker, Emi Barker and Stephanie Sorrell via
Latest research (published July 2024) proves Vet FIP treatment can be 42 days and that 84 days IS NO LONGER NECESSARY:
https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16/7/1144
Prior to this publication we were aware some cats on the Edinburgh Royal Dick Vet School FIP study stopped treatment at 8 weeks when their blood results and agp score were within normal ranges.
If you are uninsured or financially restricted we know many owners who have successfully raised enough funds via Go Fund Me fundraisers etc to help with costs.
We have direct experience of a Wet FIP cat being saved legally including all tests, supplements and recovery diet for £5000 with most of this being covered by fundraising (this was BEFORE the March 2023 price reduction.)
The only legal Vet FIP treatment your Vet can easily access is made by Summit and Bova in the UK.
All other sources are illegal and blackmarket. These drugs are of unknown content and active ingredient. They are also often disguised as skin care products and supplements etc to deceive UK Customs.
Time really is of the essence.
The FIP expert Vets have advised that FIP medication can be used to prove diagnosis. This is the preferred approach over extensive, expensive, invasive tests in very sick cats (often test results can take too many days to be returned and we have been witness to far too many cats dying because of the delay in starting Vet FIP treatment whilst waiting on tests to be returned and sometimes these are still inconclusive.)
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