The Dick Vet Equine Hospital

The Equine Internal Medicine service deals with a variety of medical problems, from emergencies to routine evaluation of more protracted medical problems.

Our orthopaedic service is one of the busiest, examining over 500 new cases of lameness every year, in addition to re-evaluating previous cases.

Our surgeons perform over 400 soft tissue and dental surgery procedures a year.

We offer a full equine reproductive service with a range of facilities including artificial insemination and breeding mare soundness examination.

The Scottish Farriery Centre is a unique and specialised facility in the UK to attend to the hoof care needs of our equine patients and referral cases.

Anaesthetics are devised according to the needs of the surgical team and the animals themselves.

The diagnostic imaging department work closely alongside primary service clinicians, with specific and significant input to radiography, nuclear scintigraphy, and MRI.

The Equine Behaviour Service is run by Gemma Pearson, one of our equine specialists, with over ten years of experience working with equine behaviour cases.

The Dick Vet Equine Hospital seasonal newsletters in PDF.

One of the key aims of the R(D)SVS equine hospital is training and nurturing specialists of the future.