Since 2006, the practice has offered a specialist critical care service. We have 24-hour onsite nursing with veterinary back-up. We are able to look after the sickest patients, including horses with colic, colitis, pneumonia and pleuropneumonia, neurological problems and bone or muscle injuries.

We offer Level III intensive care for foals. This includes, when necessary, mechanical ventilation, oxygen, electronic volumetric pumps to accurately deliver fluids and drugs, blood pressure measurement and 24-hour a day nursing.

The critical care service is led by Kevin Corley, a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. The Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health Scholarship in Equine Emergency and Critical Care, based at the hospital, will train vets who have already completed a residency in surgery, anaesthesia or internal medicine towards a super-specialisation in equine emergecy and critical care.