Dr Helen Brambles
Principal Vet · BVSc MRCVS
Founded the practice in 1998 and still does Saturday mornings.
The team
You'll see the same vet every time.
Continuity matters more than most people realise — a vet who has seen your dog four times notices the change that a locum cannot.
Dr Sam Odell
Vet · BVetMed MRCVS
Orthopaedics and soft tissue surgery. Keeps chickens, which explains a lot.
Dr Farah Nasser
Vet · BVMS CertAVP
Feline medicine. Registered Cat Friendly Clinic gold standard.
Jo Whitaker
Head Nurse · RVN
Runs the nurse clinics, the anaesthetics, and in practice, the building.
And eleven more
Six nurses, three receptionists, two students.
Our nurses run their own clinics — weight, dental hygiene, puppy and senior checks — and they are the reason most of our patients never need the vet for anything serious.
20 min
Standard appointment
9 yrs
Average staff tenure
24h
Our own on-call vet
1998
Year we opened
Out of hours
At two in the morning, you get one of us.
Most practices now hand their nights to a central emergency service forty miles away, staffed by vets who have never seen your animal and have no access to its history.
We kept ours. One of our four vets is on call every night, with the full record in front of them, in the building your animal already knows.
It is expensive to run and it is the thing our clients mention most often.
Come and have a look round first.
Genuinely — turn up, ask for a tour, meet whoever is about. Nervous animals do much better on a second visit.
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