Active Vetcare - Beechwood Veterinary Centre | Vets in Reading, Berkshire

- Compassionate handling of difficult moments, especially end-of-life appointments, with owners describing the team as calm, caring and supportive. - Strong urgent-care experiences, including quick triage, thorough examinations, pain relief, surgery for a suspected blockage, and clear updates throughout treatment. - Friendly, efficient support across the team, with reception staff, nurses and vets all praised for being helpful and reassuring.

Services

•Routine and preventive care: consultations, vaccinations, parasite control, microchipping, six-month health checks, and nurse clinics including blood pressure checks.
•Surgery and urgent care: neutering and other surgery, with recent reviews mentioning prompt assessment of a suspected blockage, pain relief and fluids, surgery, and regular updates during treatment.
•Diagnostics and imaging: diagnostic tests and imaging are listed, and recent feedback mentions an ultrasound used to rule out a suspected cruciate problem after an initial assessment.
•Dentistry and everyday care: dentistry, grooming and nail clipping, and anal sac expression.
•Referral access and follow-on care: listed referral access includes soft tissue surgery, orthopaedic surgery and cardiology; reviews also mention referral onward to a specialist after a road traffic injury.
•Additional services: pet travel documentation (GB), home visits, and care for rabbits and other small mammals, reptiles and tortoises, and birds/backyard poultry.
•Emergency arrangements: during opening hours, clients are advised to call the practice; out of hours, care is via MiNightVet in Wokingham or Maidenhead.

Pricing

Published prices suggest the clinic sits around average, based on a partial sample of comparable services. Reviews on cost are mixed: a couple of recent reviewers describe the practice as expensive, while most recent feedback focuses more on the standard of care than on fees.

People

•Dani (vet): repeatedly praised for compassionate communication, including support during euthanasia appointments and urgent treatment.
•Henri (vet): named positively in an urgent surgical case, with owners highlighting kindness and clear updates.
•Henrietta: specifically thanked for direct, fair and knowledgeable weekend care for a sick kitten.
•Wider team: reception staff, vet nurses and the practice manager are all mentioned positively for kindness, efficiency and support in urgent situations.

Reviews

Google rating: 4.5/5 from 179 reviews. Recent feedback commonly mentions

•Compassionate handling of difficult moments, especially end-of-life appointments, with owners describing the team as calm, caring and supportive.
•Strong urgent-care experiences, including quick triage, thorough examinations, pain relief, surgery for a suspected blockage, and clear updates throughout treatment.
•Friendly, efficient support across the team, with reception staff, nurses and vets all praised for being helpful and reassuring.
•Some price sensitivity, with a small number of lower-rated reviews saying the clinic feels expensive, even where the care itself was described positively.

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daren

5 months ago

If you can afford the care they are great . But like the rest of them. The owners , CVS Group plc does have a legal duty to act in the interests of its shareholders,

Janine Brockway

6 months ago

I want to highly praise this vets. It isnt my usual vet and took my kitten who was really poorly over the weekend. Henrietta saw us and she couldnt be more helpful. She was direct and fair and knowledgeable . Couldn't help enough and had so much empathy and care that I felt it necessary to share what a good helpful vet she is. I am very grateful for her help and hopefully my little baby is on the mend x

Nicky Dallarda

Excellant lovely staff

Yogen Ma

9 months ago

bloody expensive , double price of my London ones The doctor is quite nice and helpful, so the star goes to her

Paula Jenkins

Marta Dec

10 months ago

I had two of my dogs seen by the practice so far and it’s been an absolute dream of an experience from start to finish. The receptionist is extremely helpful, super fast and proficient at her job. In minutes she sorted out passing details to my regular practice all with the nicest attitude. The nurses are amazing, so helpful and kind. The vets are out of this world. One has checked my boy for suspected cruciate tear and was 100% right without diagnostics (confirmed it wasn’t it with ultrasound later) and the other spayed my girl in a standard I couldn’t dream of. My regular vet literally called the scar “spectacular” in her post op appointment, saying I did well going elsewhere as this is work is remarkable. Post seeing my dogs they kept checking on them, and provided every advice I’ve asked for. I drove 2 hours to see them and would repeat that anytime something would be wrong

Tony Cann

1 year ago

Superb Caring vets Wouldn’t go anywhere else.

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Eugene Duffy

Our poor old cat had to be put sleep a week ago. Judy was 20 years old and a bit unsteady but her back legs went. Phoned beechwood to expect her. The team were waiting for her. How wonderful they were. There wasn’t a lot they could do for her so we decided to say good bye whilst feeding her favourite food tuna. The team couldn’t have been more caring and compassionate. Thank you so much beechwood

Active Vetcare - Beechwood Veterinary Centre