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Websites for veterinary practices

Websites for veterinary practices that win the work.

Websites for veterinary practices that make registration easy, make out-of-hours arrangements impossible to miss, and handle price transparency before clients go looking for it. From £99 a month, live in 3 working days.

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Your customers

How people actually choose a veterinary practice.

People choose a vet at a handful of moments: moving house, getting a new pet, falling out with their current practice, or in a panic at night when their animal is ill. The panicked group read nothing except the out-of-hours number and whether you are open. The registering group compare a few local practices and look for convenience, trust and cost - opening hours, parking, whether you see exotics, whether the practice is independent or part of a large group, and increasingly what things cost. Price has become a much bigger part of the conversation since the Competition and Markets Authority began looking at the vets market, and owners now expect consultation and routine treatment prices to be easy to find. Once registered, clients tend to stay for the life of the pet, and often the next pet too, as long as they feel listened to.

When demand peaks. New pet registrations rise in spring and after Christmas. Firework season, summer heatstroke and Christmas food poisoning drive predictable emergency peaks.

The problem

What most veterinary practices websites get wrong.

The typical vet website is either a group template with the local practice name swapped in or an ageing independent site that no one has time to update. Both fail the frightened owner at eleven at night, who needs to know in one tap whether you do your own out-of-hours or use a separate emergency service, and where that service actually is. The second failure is registration: forms buried under news posts, or no online registration at all. The third is prices - most practices still publish none, which reads as evasive when clients have been told to compare. And vet sites need care with pet health content: prescription-only medicines cannot be advertised to the public, and advice pages should not tip into diagnosis.

What it has to do

The jobs a veterinary practice website is built for.

  1. Emergency and out-of-hours contact

    The highest-stakes visit to any vet website, and it must work in one tap.

  2. New client registration

    A registered pet is years of routine care, and often a whole household of animals.

  3. Routine appointment booking

    Vaccinations and check-ups are the backbone of the diary and the easiest calls to take off the phone.

  4. Health plan sign-up

    Monthly plans spread the cost for owners and give the practice predictable income.

The pages we build for you

Home
Emergency route, opening hours, registration and booking - nothing hides those.
Emergencies and out of hours
Who covers nights and weekends, where they are, and what to do now.
Register
A short online registration form, with what happens next.
Services
Vaccinations, neutering, dental, surgery, exotics - each with its own section.
Prices
Consultation and common treatment prices, and how estimates work for everything else.
Health plans
What is included, monthly cost, and how to join.
Our team
Vets and nurses by name, with their interests and qualifications.
About the practice
Ownership, accreditation and facilities, stated plainly.

What moves the needle

Out-of-hours arrangements on every page
Vets must make provision for emergency care, and panicked owners must find it without scrolling.
Online registration form
Lets new clients register outside opening hours instead of adding to the phone queue.
Published prices for consultations and common procedures
Price transparency is now expected, and publishing it earns trust instead of losing clients to guesswork.
Clear statement of ownership
Many owners want to know whether a practice is independent or part of a group, and saying so plainly is better than being asked.
Pet health content written within advertising rules
Prescription-only veterinary medicines cannot be advertised to the public, so product and treatment pages need care.
Team profiles with RCVS-registered vets and nurses named
Owners build loyalty to individual vets, not to a logo.

Trust signals we put on every page: RCVS registration for every vet and registered veterinary nurse · RCVS Practice Standards Scheme accreditation where held · Named out-of-hours provider · Published price list · Real team and premises photography

Concept build

What a veterinary practice website could look like.

Many people arrive at a dental website anxious, so the page is laid out like a calm magazine rather than a clinic brochure. A navy utility bar carries the three things people look for first: that NHS registrations are open, the opening hours, and a number to ring if they are in pain. The cover headline, "We are taking new NHS patients", is set large in light Newsreader, with italics picked out in antique gold, and three small arch-shaped portraits sit inside the lines of type.

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The market, in real numbers

3,825

veterinary practices registered across 334 UK local authorities.

Source: ONS UK Business Counts, SIC 75000, 2025. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Local authorities with the most veterinary practices
Local authorityBusinesses
North Yorkshire85
Somerset85
Watford75
Shropshire55
Wiltshire55
Cheshire East50
Cheshire West and Chester50
Dorset45
Somerset West and Taunton45
Buckinghamshire40

£299to set up

£99a month

3working days to launch

You approve it before anything goes live.

Designed from scratch, every word written for you, hosting and Google setup included. Or pay £1,795 once and £49 a month with no minimum term.

Questions

Veterinary Practices: what people ask us

Should our veterinary practice publish prices on its website?
Yes, at least for consultations, vaccinations, neutering and other common procedures. Price transparency in the vets market has been under close scrutiny from the Competition and Markets Authority, and owners now expect to compare. Publishing prices, with a plain note on how estimates work for everything else, earns more trust than it costs.
How should out-of-hours emergency information appear on a vet website?
It should be visible on every page, with the number as a tap-to-call link and the name and location of whoever provides cover. Owners in a panic at night will not hunt through menus, and if you use a separate out-of-hours provider they need to know exactly where to drive before they set off.
What can we legally claim on a healthcare or legal website?
Less than most people assume. Advertising rules restrict claims about outcomes, and professional regulators add their own requirements on price transparency and registration details. We build to those constraints rather than around them, and we will tell you if something you want to say is likely to cause a problem.
Should individual staff have their own pages?
If customers choose a person rather than a business, yes. In salons, dental practices and professional firms people are picking an individual, and giving each one a page with their own work, qualifications and booking link converts noticeably better than a single team photograph.

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