Brooke

The Equine Clinic in Brooke was purpose built and opened in 2012 in order to provide advanced equine veterinary services for the horses, ponies and donkeys of Norfolk and Suffolk. The clinic is sited in six acres, which allows us the luxury of a full sized manège and covered trot-up areas for lameness, back pain and poor performance investigations, stabling for eight horses including heated mare and foal accommodation, and turn-out paddocks. 

Other facilities include: operating theatre, padded induction rooms, treatments rooms and standing stocks for endoscopy, gastroscopy, digital x-ray and ultrasonography. There is a separate unit on the site to house the only equine gamma scintigraphy (bone scan) camera in Norfolk.

We are available 24hrs a day 365 days a year to provide an emergency service for your horses with our own equine vets and nurses on call.

Located on the same site is our busy Companion Animal Clinic offering routine veterinary consultations for your pets with a small animal vet, available daily during the week. This operates as a local branch of our Long Stratton small animal clinic. For small animal emergencies, outside our normal opening hours, phone your surgery as normal and you will be given details of the procedure to follow. If it is deemed necessary for your pet to see a vet, you will need to go to Taverham Vets where your pet will be treated by their dedicated emergency team –Norwich Night-Vet (NNV). 

Opening Hours

Monday - Friday: 8:00am - 6:00pm

Saturday & Sunday: Closed

Our Services Include:

Consultations

Emergency Service

Nurse Clinics

Pet Health Club
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Branch Information

  • Admissions & Discharges
  • Pharmacy
  • Payment & Insurance
  • Second Opinions/ Referrals

Admissions & Discharges

At present we do not have small animal in-patients at the Brooke surgery. Any hospitalisation of Brooke small animal patients takes place at the Long Stratton Surgery.

Pharmacy

Repeat Prescriptions

If you have a patient who is on long term treatment we are able to provide repeat courses of treatment as long as we carry out periodic re-examinations of the patient in line with the law and at the discretion of the treating veterinary surgeon.

We will normally provide repeat treatments for 3 months before we request that a re-check be undertaken. This is a legal requirement to ensure that the patient is suitably fit to continue receiving the current treatment at the appropriate dosage and that the animal can be deemed to be under our care.

Please give us 48hrs notice to when ordering repeat prescriptions if possible.

Important Notes on Prescriptions

Prescriptions are available from this practice.

You may obtain Prescription Only Medications, Category V,(POM-Vs) from us OR ask for a prescription and obtain these medicines from another veterinary surgeon or a pharmacy. We may prescribe POM-Vs only for animals under our care.

A prescription may not be appropriate if your animal is an in-patient or immediate treatment is necessary. You will be informed, on request, of the price of any medicine that may be dispensed for your animal.

The general policy of this practice is to re-assess an animal requiring repeat prescriptions every 3 months, but this may vary with individual circumstances. The standard price for a prescription is £16.00 (including VAT).

The standard price for a prescription is £28.50 (including VAT).

Drug Collections

The surgery is stocked with a large range of small animal, large animal and equine drugs. This enables us to supply you and your animal with the medications best suited to treat your animals needs. Dispensed drugs can normally be collected from reception immediately following your consultation at the clinic.

We receive a daily delivery from our wholesaler which ensures that we have adequate supplies. Special or unusual orders received before 4:30pm are generally delivered the following day. Please give 48hrs notice for repeat prescriptions to ensure the drugs are ready for you to collect at your convenience. Unfortunately we are unable to post prescription drugs.

Payment & Insurance

Invoicing

Our accounts for equine and farm animal clients are sent out at the end of each calendar month. Our payment terms are 7 days from the date of receiving the invoice. If you anticipate having difficulties paying your bill please contact our accounts department immediately after receiving your bill, do not wait for reminders to arrive.

We respectfully request that all small animal services and products are paid for at the time of purchase or consultation, or on collection of your pet following any inpatient procedures. We are unable to offer any credit facilities for small animal accounts.

Methods of Payment

Payment of your account can be made by cash or credit/debit card at reception, or by credit/debit card over the phone. Please include your remittance advice with any postal payments.

Insurance Claims

We are only able to process direct insurance claims (where the insurance company pays the amount owed minus your excess directly to the practice) on claims totalling £500 and over.

If your bill is less than this, you will be expected to settle your bill in full at the time of treatment and then make a claim for reimbursement from your insurance company.

You can hand in your insurance form at reception once you have completed your section of it. We will then process and complete your form which can either be collected from the surgery or posted back to you for you to send to your insurance company. Due to recent changes in procedures, we are unable to send the forms directly to your insurance company.

Second Opinions/ Referrals

Please note that at any time during your pet’s treatment you may request a second opinion or referral. We will be happy to advise on second opinion/referral centres and provide clinical notes etc. to the referral centre. Occasionally a referral is the desired course of action in complicated small animal and equine cases. If this situation arises the treating veterinary surgeon will discuss this with you.

Registering as a New Client

Registering as a New Client

Looking to register with our Norwich practice?

Once you are registered and accepted as a client of the practice, we will provide routine and emergency services according to our terms and conditions of business. If you wish to make a routine appointment simply call the office during normal hours 01508 558228. For routine services it is advisable to arrange the appointment several days in advance if a specific date is required.  Farm, and small animal home visits are booked through the Long Stratton Branch. Small animal appointments during consulting hours will be allocated at the time of booking and are dependant on availability.

Whilst we make every effort to keep all appointments, the nature of veterinary practice means that there are occasions when the vet will have to cancel or re-organise a pre-arranged appointment at short notice to attend an emergency situation, or a different vet from that previously booked to attend may attend. We endeavour to keep you informed of any changes and to minimise any disruption or inconvenience caused by the necessary prioritisation of emergency calls.

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