Services
Emergency Equine Veterinary Service covering Suffolk and Essex
OUT OF HOURS ONLY EMERGENCY NUMBER - 07894 682937 EMERGENCY NUMBERS DURING OFFICE HOURS - 01376 513369 or 01449 744904 or 01702 551600 or 01371 223101OFFICE HOURS MON-FRI 8.30AM-5.30PM | SAT 9.00AM-12.30PM In the event of an emergency with your horse, pony or donkey, please call the numbers listed above. We will always get to you as quickly as possible. Paton and Lee always has at leas...
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Current Pricings for 2024
For your information here are some prices (correct as of 01/01/2024) for routine work that is carried out: Our standard charge for a 15 minute consultation is £70 including VAT. Consultations over 15 minutes are charged on a time basis at £280 per hour or part thereof.Our standard additional out-of-hours fee (for calls received between 5pm-10pm and 6am-8am Monday-Friday, 12.30pm-10pm ...
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Vaccinations for your horse pony or donkey
Paton and Lee strongly recommends vaccinating horses, ponies and donkeys routinely against equine influenza ('flu') and tetanus. Equine influenza is still prevalent throughout the UK, with dozens of cases diagnosed in 2021 and 2022, including cases in Essex. The vaccine guidelines and intervals have been updated for 2024 for most organisations.For all affiliated competitions and many local competi...
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Equine Dentistry
Paton and Lee provide a comprehensive equine dental service throughout Essex and Suffolk, from routine dental examinations and assessments, to advanced equine dental surgery and preventative treatment. All of our veterinary surgeons are thoroughly trained and experienced in assessing equine dentition, and carry with them all the equipment required to conduct a thorough dental evaluation ...
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Worm Care Packages
Paton and Lee offer annual worm care packages to make worming your horse as simple and cost effective as possible. With ever increasing levels of resistance to anthelmintics (wormers), a targeted and responsible worming protocol is very important.For worming peace of mind we offer 3 levels of worm care packages (for adult horses over 2 years with known worming history and appropriate pas...
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Standing Equine MRI Unit
Paton and Lee have a standing equine MRI unit at their Hoo Hall clinic in Witham. This is the first equine MRI unit in Essex and gives owners the ability to acheive the gold standard in equine orthopaedic diagnostics without having to travel long distanced to other referral centres of large equine hospitals.Why should I consider Standing MRI?Early, safe and accurate diagnosis is paramount when you...
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Vettings
PRE PURCHASE EXAMINATIONS (VETTINGS) Before purchasing a new horse it is advisable to have a pre-purchase examination carried out. This will help to identify any ailments that may prevent the horse from performing at your intended level. It will also enable comprehensive insurance cover to be obtained. Either a 2 stage or 5 stage vetting can be undertaken. However, a 5 stage e...
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Equine Breeding Service
Paton and Lee has long been established as a British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA) approved Artificial Insemination (AI) centre. We have years of experience getting mares in foal using fresh, frozen and chilled semen. We are able to store frozen semen over the long-term at the practice ready for use. We can treat mares at your yard or at the practice on specially reduced stud-livery ra...
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Equine Laboratory
We have our own in-house laboratory, where we are able to perform laboratory analysis on a range of different samples. Among the services we can offer at the practice are: haematology and biochemistry analysis of blood samples; analysis of synovial fluid; faecal worm egg counts; ringworm culture and analysis of hair-pluck and skin scrape samples; neonatal IgG (maternal antibody) tests on foals; pr...
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JMB Joint Measurements
Jonathan Lee MRCVS is an official measurer for the Joint Measurement Board. We have the specialised facilities for performing joint measurements at our Hoo Hall clinic. Please call the office to book your joint measurement and remember that you will need to bring all the associated paperwork and your horse or pony's passport with you on the day, along with a cheque to send to the JMB. Measurements...
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Equine Weighbridge Service
Getting an accurate weight for your horse is very important, especially for dosing with wormers and other medications, or as part of a controlled weight-loss or weight-gain programme for conditions such as equine metabolic syndrome, laminitis, or following illness. An accurate weight for our patients at the clinic is also important for the accurate dosing of sedatives, anaesthetic agents and other...
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Lameness investigations
From pus-in-foot to complex performance limiting lameness issues, you can get a comprehensive lameness investigation performed with Paton and Lee. We recognise the vital importance of reaching an accurate diagnosis in all cases before leaping into treatment. Most of our lameness investigations will begin with a thorough examination at your yard, including careful palption of limbs, neck, back and ...
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Behavioural Consultations
Ben heads up the practice's equine behaviour service, but all of our vets have experience with using equitation science training techniques. We can provide training and assistance with a variety of behavioural issues including: Head-shy horses (difficult to bridle, worm or touch their ears, for example) Needle shy horses (do you dread the vet coming out for routine vaccinations?) Horses that ...
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Class 4 Laser Therapy
Paton and Lee are now able to offer Class 4 therapeutic laser treatment for your horse either at our practice or on-site throughout Essex and Suffolk for a range of different orthopaedic conditions . Class 4 laser therapy is a safe non-invasive form of treatment that uses high doses of targeted near infrared laser energy. This provides pain relief, reduces inflammation and improves healing.&n...
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Equine Oncology Service
...ge to the surrounding healthy cells. The technique can be used alone for superficial tumours, or alongside laser surgery.Paton and Lee offer a range of other more traditional tumour treatments to meet our patient's needs, including sharp excision of tumours under local anaesthetic or GA; AW4-LUDES (Liverpool) Sarcoid Cream applications; banding or suturing of small nodular type sarcoids and other methods where suitable.Below are two videos, the first showing the laser removal of a sarcoid at Paton and Lee and the second longer video showing a lecture given by Jeremy Kemp-Symonds MRCVS at the World Equine Veterinary Congress in Budapest on laser surgery treatment for sarcoids.
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Remedial Farriery
They say team work is the key to success, and that is never truer than with horses. We are always happy to liaise with farriers about your horse's shoeing, and we can assist farriers by providing quality xray images of the feet and either printing those images out or emailing them direct to your farrier to view. In addition to our liasing service, we also have Pete Loveless at the practice every W...
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Official Veterinarian's (OV) Services & Inspections
As Official Veterinarians (OV's) registered with the Animal & Plant Health Agency (APHA) we are able to provide a range of services to help horse owners and professionals with the export of horses, equine semen and embryos. Following our exit from the EU, please ensure that you book your export appointment with us well in advance of the date of export to allow appropriate testing to ...
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