Welcome to the home page of The Horse Clinic at Blackmore

Location

Our main Equine Clinic is at Blackmore, where we have both our Equine and Small Animal facilities. The practice covers most of Essex, East Hertfordshire and some of East London. We are happy to visit horses in these areas.

 

VISITS and IN-YARD APPOINTMENTS

Arranging a Visit or making an Appointment could not be easier.

Telephone 01277 823808 and speak to one of our friendly equine receptionists to book the vet of your choice to come and see you and your horse when convenient.

More specialised work may need to be carried out at the clinic, and many clients prefer to travel to us in any case to make use of our extensive facilities.

It is helpful for any visits and appointment requests to be phoned in before 9.30 as it makes it easier to organise the vets' rounds and plan the routes to provide the service requested.

Surgery Hours & Equine Reception

Equine Reception is open between 8.15 am and 5.00 pm for routine enquiries and bookings.

Picking up drugs, routine admissions for hospitalisation or further treatment are possible between 8.00 am a and 7.30 pm during the week and between 9.00 am and 5.00 pm at the weekend.

Of course, any urgent enquiry will happily be dealt with and any emergency appointment or admission can be organised at ant time by simply ringing our normal reception number 01277 823808.

Please do not communicate requests for visits or emergencies by email. Use the telephone and speak to the receptionist.

Fees and Payment

To keep our fees as low as possible, we need to receive payment at the time of delivering the service. In return we offer a generous discount to our clients who pay us at the time (provided you have no other outstanding payments with us). We accept cash, cheques (supported with a card) and most major credit and debit cards.

For some business clients and approved regular clients we may offer account facilities after credit search and partner approval. Insured cases may qualify to receive some treatment on account.

A full copy of our Terms Of Business is available.

Facilities

Our clinic is in a pleasant rural setting, very close to Norton Heath Equestrian Centre. To help with the diagnosis and treatment of your horse we have excellent facilities. To explore our full range of equine services, click here.

• Ample car and lorry parking
• Comfortable stables for your horse, whether it needs routine or intensive care
• Consultation rooms with X Ray, Ultrasound scanners, Video endoscopy, Shockwave machine, Ultrasound and laser treatment and Power tools for advanced dentistry
• Theatre /Padded Recovery Box with Pneumatic airbed and inhalation anaesthetic machine with the most up to date monitoring equipment.
• B.E.V.A Approved artificial insemination (A.I.) centre
• Turnout paddocks for mares, foals and convalescent patients
• Rubber-surfaced riding arena, for performance testing, or to help diagnose locomotory problems.
• Forge where our vets can work with your farrier, or our resident farrier can carry out surgical work.
• Trot-up area and hard lungeing surface to assist in lameness diagnosis.
• Undercover J.M.B Measuring pad. (Joint Measuring Board)

We have a full range of services available including -

• Visits to your yard or appointments at our clinic
• Surgical facilities
• Supervised hospitalisation
• Radiography, diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound
• Endoscopy, ECG and keyhole surgery
• Referral cardiology, ophthalmology & dermatology
• In house laboratory for fast results
• Full BEVA accredited breeding service
• Dentistry by vets
• Lameness investigation and treatment
• Pre purchase advise and official measuring
• Orthopaedic farriery clinics