Should your pet need to stay with us either as a day patient or overnight at our Buckhurst Hill Veterinary Pracitce, you can be assured that our wards offer comfortable hospitalisation facilities with a trained member of staff supervising inpatients.
Our Buckhurst Hill site in Essex, is staffed Monday to Thursday with a duty Veterinary Surgeon on call specifically for our inpatients. (All other emergencies should be referred to Forest Vets). On a Friday, all inpatients will be admitted to Forest Vets in Epping for the weekend.
We have a ward nurse caring for our inpatients during normal working hours and a night nurse overnight.
The Veterinary Surgeon does a ward round with the duty nurse prior to leaving the branch and issues instructions for your pet's care. Provided your animal’s condition is stable the ward nurse will routinely check them throughout the night.
Should the nurse be at all worried about your pet's condition they will contact the Veterinary Surgeon immediately. If your pet requires constant monitoring or observation throughout the night we will ask you to transfer them to Forest Vets in Epping where they have a veterinary surgeon on the premises all night.
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 site Monday to Thursday only & Forest Vets in Epping on Friday.
