In house referrals
We are lucky to have three practices providing travelling referral services to Blue House.
Gareth Harries BVMS Cert SAS MRCVS RCVS Recognised Advanced Practitioner in Small Animal Surgery at Surgivet is able to provide orthopaedic surgery at Blue House. He is a very experienced and proficient surgeon who lives locally.
Soft Tissue Surgery
Visiting Vet Specialists (Visit website) is a service providing travelling referral surgery. Catherine Sturgeon is a RCVS and ECVS Recognised Specialist in Surgery and has twenty four years experience.
External referrals
If your pet has a condition that cannot, for whatever reason, be treated at Blue House, we will always offer you referral. We are lucky to be close to a number of excellent referral centres.
State of the art small animal veterinary referral hospital offering a multi-disciplinary specialist referral service. The referral services they offer include:
- Anaesthesia & Analgesia
- Dermatology
- Diagnostic Imaging
- Exotic Pets
- Feline Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Interventional Radiology
- Neurology
- Oncology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopaedic & Spinal Surgery
- Rehabilitation
- Soft Tissue Surgery and Oncosurgery
They have a large range of facilities to support our referral specialists, including:
- Discipline-specific consulting rooms
- 5 large operating theatres
- Spacious wards (including designated cat and dog wards)
- Intensive care facilities
- Imaging suite (with MRI, CT, Radiography, Fluoroscopy & Ultrasonography facilities)
- Cardiology suite
- Chemotherapy ward
- Radioactive iodine suite
- Rehabilitation facilities
Northwest Surgeons provides specialist veterinary services to veterinary practices in the North West. Their specialist disciplines are orthopaedic, soft tissue and spinal surgery, internal medicine and cardiology with support in anaesthesia, pain management and diagnostic imaging. Each service is led by RCVS or European specialists with a team of highly qualified veterinary nurses providing round the clock care to your pet. It is based in Frodsham and is approximately 50 minutes’ drive from Blue House.
Eye Vet is a dedicated ophthalmology practice, and has back-up from other disciplines provided by clinical staff at the University of Liverpool Small Animal Teaching Hospital in Leahurst. It is based in Frodsham and is approximately 50 minutes’ drive from Blue House.
The Small Animal Teaching Hospital is part of The University of Liverpool’s School of Veterinary Science, based on the Leahurst Campus in the Wirral (Visit Website). As one of the largest and most advanced hospitals built for small animals in Europe, the facility sees referral appointments from far and wide. The team of RCVS and European Specialists work at the cutting edge of veterinary medicine to deliver a service that is world renowned.
Exotic referrals
Whilst we are happy to see your parrot, tortoise, bearded dragon or other more exotic pets for routine health checks, nail/beak trims and consultations, we may on occasion recommend that your pet is seen by a specialist with all of the associated equipment needed to hospitalise and operate on these species.
Birch Heath are recognised as one of the best equipped surgeries in the country for treating raptors, parrots, cage & aviary birds, waterfowl, reptiles, rabbits, tortoises, exotic small mammals, zoo and wildlife. Their veterinary surgeons have an international reputation, and have lectured extensively both in the UK and worldwide. Uniquely the practice has outdoor mews for the hospitalisation of raptors, and ventilated purpose-built parrot wards. Birch Heath has the facilities to hospitalise any small animal, reptile, avian or exotic mammal.