Hospitalisation Facilities

We have a great team of qualified and highly experienced veterinary nurses who work tirelessly to provide compassionate and expert care to all our patients and essential assistance to our vets in a range of procedures.

They also run nurse clinics and are always happy to give free advice on caring for your pet, particularly with regard to dental care and the management of obesity.

We are an RCVS approved Veterinary Nurse Training Centre and all our nurses are actively involved in CPD (Continuing Professional Development).

We have separate dog and cat kennel areas with appropriately sized ‘Shoreline units’ to hospitalise patients of all shapes and sizes including a walk-in kennel for giant breed dogs. All our kennels are suitable for housing patients who need intravenous fluid therapy and we routinely use infusion pumps to ensure accurate fluid delivery. We have a separate isolation area for infectious cases.

Our small animal operating theatre is equipped with two adjustable operating tables, piped anaesthetic gases and ceiling mounted specialist operating lights. We use modern multiparameter monitoring equipment for all patients having a procedure under general anaesthesia. The theatre is used solely for surgery in order to maintain the highest standards of hygiene.

The prep room is the “hub” of the small animal department and links the kennels, imaging suite, operating theatre and consultation rooms. It is where patients are examined, prepared for surgery and where minor medical procedures e.g., blood sampling take place. Our prep- area includes a dedicated dentistry station where our dental procedures are carried out. We have a full range of modern dental diagnostic and treatment facilities including a digital dental x-ray machine and processor.

We have four consultation rooms where we see our small animal patients when they present to the practice.  One of these rooms can be completely darkened so that ophthalmologic and ultrasound examinations can be performed.

We have a range of scales that are capable of accurately weighing everything from a tiny kitten up to the heaviest dogs and horses – our largest set weigh up to 400kg to within 0.1kg accuracy (or up to 1500kg at 0.5kg accuracy for real record breakers!)