Wooding's Family Veterinary Practice – Vets in Romford
Clinic Overview
- Recent feedback strongly praises the practice’s handling of anxious, reactive, or skittish dogs, including quieter appointment times, patient examinations, and a calm approach from first contact onward. - Communication is a clear strength: owners often mention treatments, procedures, options, and follow-up steps being explained simply and reassuringly. - Reviews cover a good mix of everyday and procedural care, including vaccinations, dental cleaning, retained baby teeth removal, spay surgery, hot-spot treatment, and removal of a seed from a sore paw.
Services
- •Routine and preventive care: Check-ups and vaccinations remain a core part of the practice’s offering. Reviews describe booster jabs for nervous or reactive dogs, with quieter appointment times suggested to help reduce stress.
- •Consultations and treatment: Owners mention help with issues including sore paws, skin problems such as a hot spot, and advice around neutering, with clear guidance on treatment and next steps.
- •Surgery and procedures: Recent examples include spay surgery, removal of retained baby teeth, and extracting a large seed from a dog’s paw. Reviews describe pets being handled gently and owners being kept well informed.
- •Dental care: Dental cleaning and dental surgery are mentioned repeatedly, with owners reporting smooth procedures, good aftercare explanations, and strong results.
- •Emergency and end-of-life care: The website states that emergency care is available, and owners have also described compassionate euthanasia support with time and sensitivity around difficult decisions.
- •Species seen: Alongside dogs and cats, reviewers specifically mention the practice’s knowledge of tortoises.
Pricing
Published prices suggest the clinic sits around average, based on a partial sample of comparable services. Reviews do not centre on low prices, but owners do mention clear discussions of options and a practical approach that balances cost with effectiveness.
People
- •Ian Wooding: Named repeatedly by owners, who describe him as patient, caring, thorough, and clear in his explanations. Reviews mention him in relation to vaccinations for nervous dogs, neutering discussions, skin treatment, paw treatment, dental procedures, and general consultations.
- •Reception, nurses, and wider team: While not individually named, the reception team and nurses are regularly praised for being welcoming, helpful, kind, and calm with anxious pets.
Reviews
Google rating: 5.0/5 from 68 reviews.
- •Recent feedback strongly praises the practice’s handling of anxious, reactive, or skittish dogs, including quieter appointment times, patient examinations, and a calm approach from first contact onward.
- •Communication is a clear strength: owners often mention treatments, procedures, options, and follow-up steps being explained simply and reassuringly.
- •Reviews cover a good mix of everyday and procedural care, including vaccinations, dental cleaning, retained baby teeth removal, spay surgery, hot-spot treatment, and removal of a seed from a sore paw.
- •Owners also frequently mention a friendly reception team, lovely nurses, a clean clinic, easy parking, and a general sense of warmth and professionalism.
