A sister and brother, fixing locum cover.
Fetch was born from a real frustration. After years of expensive agencies, unreliable platforms, and last-minute staffing crises, we decided to build something better.
Vets should spend their days with animals — not on hold with an agency. Fetch exists to make locum cover simple, direct, and fairly priced for both sides.
What we believe
Three things we hold onto.
Direct by default
Practices and locums work together without a middleman taking a cut. Fetch never sits in the payment chain — and never will.
Verified, properly
Every locum is RCVS-checked with verified documents before they can apply to a single shift. Trust isn't a feature you bolt on later.
Built with care
Designed by a vet who has lived the problem, engineered by her brother. Every screen is shaped by real shifts, not boardroom guesses.
Why Fetch exists
Locum staffing is broken.
The industry relies on locum cover, but the system itself is expensive, inefficient, and frustrating for everyone involved.
Agency fees eat into your margins.
Practices pay £100-300+ per booking through traditional agencies. That's margin that could go towards better care, better tools, better team pay.
Typical 5 bookings/month
£750+ to the agency
Last-minute scrambles
When a vet calls in sick at 7am, practices are left ringing through outdated contact lists.
No transparency
Agencies sit between you and the locum. Limited visibility into qualifications, reviews, or availability.
Repetitive admin
The same verification, hours, and payment dance for every single booking — every time.
No relationship building
Agency bookings are transactional. You can't build ongoing relationships with locums you trust.
Outdated technology
Most existing platforms are clunky, desktop-only, and haven't kept up with how vets actually work.
The everyday we're fighting to protect
Meet the founders
The humans behind Fetch.
One of us spent a decade in consult rooms, the other in codebases. Fetch is what happened when we compared notes.
Veterinary leadMinnie Liddell
Co-founder · the vet half
RCVS-qualified veterinary surgeon
10+ years of clinical practice and locum experience
Worked across small animal, mixed, and emergency practice
After a decade of locuming across the UK, Minnie experienced first-hand the frustrations of the current system — expensive agency fees, unreliable platforms, and a disconnect between practices and the locums they rely on. She knew there had to be a better way, and set out to build it.
Technical leadHarry Liddell
Co-founder · the engineer half
Lead Software Engineer at a FTSE 100 company
Full-stack engineer specialising in scalable platforms
Builds products that solve real, lived problems
When Minnie shared her frustrations with the locum industry, Harry saw a clear technical opportunity. Together, they combined deep veterinary expertise with modern software engineering to build a platform that puts practices and locums first — not agency profits.
The story so far
From kitchen table to nationwide.
2024
The frustration
After a decade of locuming, Minnie hits one agency invoice too many. The idea for Fetch is born around the kitchen table.
2024–2026
Built in-house
Designed and engineered entirely by the two of us — no agencies, no outsourcing, no shortcuts on the things that matter.
June 2026
Live across the UK
Fetch launches nationwide for practices and locums, with verification, messaging, and hours confirmation from day one.
Next
The first 500
Our founding member practices are shaping what we build next. The roadmap is written with them, not for them.
Help us build a better future for vets.
Whether you're a practice or a locum, Fetch is here to make your life easier.