Should your animal need to stay with us at our Buckhurst Hill site in Essex either as a day patient or overnight you can be assured that our wards offer comfortable hospitalisation facilities with a trained member of staff supervising inpatients both day and night.
There is a ward nurse caring for our inpatients during normal working hours Monday to Saturday. We offer overnight care with a Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN) Monday to Thursday with one our Veterinary Surgeons on call if needed.
The Veterinary Surgeon does a ward round with the duty ward nurse prior to leaving the branch and issues instructions for your animal’s care. Should our night nurse RVN be at all worried about your animal’s condition they will contact the Veterinary Surgeon immediately. If your animal needs monitoring more often this will be done by the night nurse RVN as directed by the Veterinary Surgeon. If your animal requires constant monitoring or observation again this will be carried out by the nurse under the direction of the Veterinary Surgeon. The Veterinary Surgeon undertakes a ward round first thing in the morning.
Friday to Sunday our inpatients are admitted at Forest Veterinary Centre in Epping, whereby a Veterinary Surgeon will be on the premises for 24-hour care.
We do not currently hospitalise patients overnight at our Romford, Walthamstow or Oakhill branches. Patients requiring overnight hospitalisation will need to be transferred to our Buckhurst Hill branch Monday to Thursday and Forest Veterinary Centre Friday to Sunday,.
Contact us for further details at Palmerston Veterinary Group.
