so you are just having a general whingefest? That was not clear from your original

How? We just go to out vet and get the treatment. Its not a situation where we can go and buy the treatment ourself.

Just have to get the treatment.

Only choice would be not to get the treatment, as I thats something that most of us would never consider.

Yes and raise the question for people to consider the quality of service and value for money from our vets.

You find a vet that you are happy with - simple.
Each of us have that choice, no one holds a knife to our throats and frogmarches us into a particular surgery.
If people cant make the effort to find a vet they are happy with in every regard, then it comes down to sheer laziness imo.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

when tara my poodle(now passed) became incontinent and was prescribed propalin syrup,i saved myself nearly £40.00 a time by buying on line without prescription.

The problem is, a lot of people do not realise how much money the practices actually have to pay out to keep a practice running.

Firsty there are the wages - our practice has 2 vets, a manager, 2 trainee nurses and 3 qualified nurses. The practice pays for all of the trainees training and exams, which come to around £700 - £1000 per exam, they will also pay for one resit should the trainee fail on the first attempt.
There are all the usual bills such a phone bills (imagine how many times the vets use the phones per day), electricity - which pretty much everything uses, laboratory equipment for running in house blood/urine tests, all of the medications which they have to buy in, anaesthetic equipment aswell as the anaesthetic itself, oxygen, repairs and services on all equipment such as xray developers, autoclaves and anaesthetic devices and that is just the start.

The vets bills that we pay do not just pay the vet, they also pay for the running of the practice which is definately not cheap. If the vets couldn't afford to keep the practice running we would all be in trouble.

Sue.

Could anyone be a client of the Willows? What is the consulation fee. What are they charges? Do you have to pay more to see a specialist at the practice?

Sorry to hear of you bad exsperience ;-( with first vet.

Thats why choice of vet is so important.

D xxxx

I don't feel it is that simple because we generally can only go to local vets, and could be unlucky that they are not the vets we would choose if had the choice.

Thats what I think it wrong. We shouldn't have too. When a pet is ill, that is a hard enough, and them have to worry about finding the money to buy the medication or looking to buy online. Thinking of people who don't have insurance.

Some people not having the option to buy online ect. IE vulnerable are taking advantage of.