Valley Equine Hospital Lambourn Ltd

- Owners often describe strong communication, including regular updates during inpatient stays and clear explanations around surgery, aftercare and difficult decisions. - Recent and past reviews highlight referral work, especially scans, surgery, and more complex equine cases. - Staff are repeatedly praised for being caring, competent and supportive, with named mentions for Dr Jessica Kidd, Nina, Tom and Ollie.

Valley Equine Hospital Lambourn Ltd is an RCVS Accredited Equine Hospital for horses and ponies, offering both ambulatory visits and hospital-based investigations in Lambourn, Berkshire. The practice states it provides a 24-hour emergency service, 365 days a year, with out-of-hours calls handled by experienced veterinary nurses. Facilities listed include digital radiography and a standing distal limb CT scanner, and reviews describe horses being referred in for scans and surgery, with regular owner updates during hospital stays.

Services

•Emergency and ambulatory care: The hospital states it offers a 24-hour emergency service year-round, alongside an ambulatory service for horses and ponies.
•Routine and general equine healthcare: The website also refers to routine health care.
•Investigations and imaging: Website-listed diagnostics include digital radiography and a standing distal limb CT scanner. Recent reviews also mention horses attending for scans and more in-depth work-ups, including a lameness case.
•Referral and surgical care: Reviews describe referral surgery, including surgeon calls before and after procedures, discussion of the treatment plan, and post-operative management. One owner also praised twice-daily update calls during a hospital stay.
•Training role: The clinic is also noted as a veterinary nurse training facility.

Pricing

No published pricing information is currently available for this clinic.

People

•Dr Jessica Kidd: Named in reviews for performing a horse’s surgery successfully and for clear explanations of the problem, procedure and aftercare. She is also praised for work on a lameness case, with owners highlighting her thorough questioning and detailed discussions.
•Nina: Mentioned for keeping an owner fully informed during a surgical referral stay.
•Tom: Thanked, along with the wider team, for treatment and support that helped a very unwell horse return home and recover.
•Ollie: Praised for being available by phone and giving clear, unequivocal advice during a difficult situation.

Reviews

Google rating: 4.7 stars from 43 reviews.

•Owners often describe strong communication, including regular updates during inpatient stays and clear explanations around surgery, aftercare and difficult decisions.
•Recent and past reviews highlight referral work, especially scans, surgery, and more complex equine cases.
•Staff are repeatedly praised for being caring, competent and supportive, with named mentions for Dr Jessica Kidd, Nina, Tom and Ollie.
•There is one negative outlier alleging a poor vetting with no explanation or health check, but most written feedback is strongly positive.

Reviews for Valley Equine Hospital Lambourn Ltd

Note: Showing the 10 most recent Google reviews out of 43 we track in total. Recent reviews may not be representative of overall sentiment.

Elle T

6 months ago

Bad vetting no explanation no health check

Natasha Heimers

11 months ago

Cara Chapman

1 year ago

Absolutely fantastic vets. Really took great care of my boy when he came for scans. Would totally recommend!

David Bond

Amanda Ella Davis

OMG Tom and the Team are awesome. I took Mango there a week ago and he was in the worst condition ever and told to expect the worst. One week later Mango is back home and on the road to a full recovery. We are eternally grateful for the love, care , support and treatment they gave Mango. And we couldn’t recommend them enough. Thank you xx

Buckinghamshire Donaldsons

2 years ago

My horse recently visited Valley Equine as a referral for surgery. I cannot express how good this practice was - they rang me twice a day to let me know how my horse was doing, as well as additional calls from the surgeon before and after surgery to let me know exactly what was going to happen and how surgery had gone, with post operative management details. My horse can be quite reactive but the environment at the stables was lovely and he took less than minutes to settle. The staff did all they could do ensure that he was happy and comfortable there. The clinic were also very honest with their bills, with final costs coming under what they had quoted! Dr Jessica Kidd performed my horses surgery very successfully and explained the issue, the procedure and the aftercare to me brilliantly, whilst Nina did an excellent job of making sure I was fully informed of how things were going. I thought this practice was extremely competent and focus on needs of both the horse and the owner was exemplary.

Equiporium Sport Horses

3 years ago

Jessica Kidd is particularly talented in lameness resolution where 3 other top sports vets failed to resolve the matter with our high level jumper. Jessica's extreme talent, kindness, care, commitment to go above & beyond combined with her particularly outstanding bedside manner sets her in a league of her own on an International level. We were seriously considering traveling the horse to Europe for his bone scan & resultant treatment to a top clinic in Europe & having made the choice to rather use Jessica in the UK, we could not be more pleased with our decision based on the results Jessica has delivered. Jessica is particularly attentive, really questions everything, listens closely to the horse & discusses thoroughly with the horse's owners. I could not recommend Jessica more strongly. We are so pleased to find such a talented professional in the UK & will certainly consult with her on other performance horses going forward.

Judiith Leggatt

Clear unequivocal advice from a very competent and experienced professional. Ollie, thank you and for being there at the end of the phone to guide me. The outcome was not happy but in the horse's best interest. Definitely the' best around here' to quote an earlier review!