Information Density: Willows Veterinary Group – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

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WELCOME to Willows Veterinary Group

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Make BIG savings with our Pet Health Packages

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DEDICATED Emergency Care 24/7, 365 Days a Year

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[H1] Welcome to the Willows Veterinary Group

Willows Veterinary Group is a mixed practice group providing veterinary services for pets, farm animals and horses. The Willows Veterinary Group comprises 22 small animal practices throughout Cheshire, Manchester, Staffordshire and the Wirral. The farm practice operates from 5 offices across Cheshire and North Wales, and  our equine hospital, Ashbrook, is in Allostock.

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[H2] Find your local branch

Branches

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[H2] Oakwood Referrals

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[H2] Willows Farm Vets

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[H2] Ashbrook Equine Vets

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[H2] Small Animal Services

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[H2] Oakwood Referrals

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[H2] Willows Farm Vets

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[H2] Small Animal Services

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[H1] Abbeycroft Veterinary Surgery

38 Station Road
Northwich
Cheshire
CW9 5RA
Telephone: 01606 40332

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[H1] Acorn Veterinary Centre

15-17 Acacia Grove
West Kirby
Wirral
CH48 4DD
Telephone: 0151 625 9916

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[H1] Alsager Veterinary Centre

The Point, Crewe Road
Alsager
Stoke-on-Trent
ST7 2GP
Telephone: 01270 873478

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[H1] Beech House Veterinary Hospital

Wilderspool Causeway
Warrington
Cheshire
WA4 6QP
Telephone: 01925 445500

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[H1] Birchwood Vets

Unit NU9, Birchwood Shopping Centre
Dewhurst Road
Birchwood
Warrington
WA3 7PG
Telephone: 01925 912474

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[H1] Broom Cottage Veterinary Surgery

28 Chapel Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5HZ
Telephone: 01625 525175

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[H1] Charter Veterinary Surgeons – Biddulph Surgery

51 Congleton Road
Biddulph
Staffordshire
ST8 6EF
Telephone: 01782 513077

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[H1] Charter Veterinary Surgeons – Butt Lane Surgery

118 Congleton Road
Butt Lane
Talke
Staffordshire
ST7 1LX
Telephone: 01782 771441

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[H1] Charter Veterinary Surgeons – Congleton Surgery

16 West Road
Congleton
Cheshire
CW12 4ER
Telephone: 01260 273449

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[H1] Charter Veterinary Surgeons – Newcastle Surgery

6 Queen Street
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Staffordshire
ST5 1ED
Telephone: 01782 616551

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[H1] Hampton Veterinary Centre

Hampton Heath
Malpas
Cheshire
SY14 8JQ
Telephone: 01948 820345

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[H1] Holly House Veterinary Surgery

Mobberley Road
Knutsford
Cheshire
WA16 8HT
Telephone: 01565 632253

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[H1] Laurels Veterinary Surgery

Charter House
Victoria Road
Runcorn
Cheshire
WA7 5SS
Telephone: 01928 575515

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[H1] Lymm Veterinary Surgery

10 Booths Hill Road
Lymm
Cheshire
WA13 0DL
Telephone: 01925 752721

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[H1] Manchester Vet Centre

6-8 Tatton Road
Haughton Green
Denton
Manchester
M34 7PL
Telephone: 0161 320 4438

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[H1] Middlewich Veterinary Surgery

39 Newton Heath
Middlewich
Cheshire
CW10 9HL
Telephone: 01606 833731

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[H1] Orford Lane Veterinary Surgery

173 Orford Lane
Warrington
Cheshire
WA2 7AZ
Telephone: 01925 634881

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[H1] Station House Veterinary Centre

Station Master’s House
157b Ashley Road
Hale
Cheshire
WA14 2UZ
Telephone: 0161 941 1584

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[H1] The Firs Veterinary Surgery

4 Church St
Kelsall
Nr. Tarporley
Cheshire
CW6 0QG
Telephone: 01829 751500

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[H1] Willows Veterinary Hospital

267 Chester Road
Hartford
Northwich
Cheshire
CW8 1LP
Telephone: 01606 723202

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[H1] Winsford Veterinary Surgery

84-88 High Street
Winsford
Cheshire
CW7 2AP
Telephone: 01606 592714

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[H1] What We Offer

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[H3] Vaccinations

We provide all of your dog, cat and other small animal’s routine vaccinations, including yearly boosters and starter courses for young and rehomed pets.

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[H3] Microchipping

Microchipping is a legal requirement for all dogs over the age of eight weeks, and cats over the age of twenty weeks.

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[H3] Flea, tick and worm treatments

We can advise on the best products and routines to keep your pet healthy, happy and free from pests.

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Castration and spaying for your pet, as well as advice on when and why to perform them.

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[H3] Pet travel

Travel advice, documentation and preparation to help you and your pet to travel safely and without difficulty.

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[H3] Dental care

We can offer advice on optimal dental hygiene, as well as procedures from scale and polishes to extractions and more.

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[H3] Digital X-ray

The digital x-ray facilities at our branches provide safe, quick and high quality images that can be easily accessed or passed on for referrals if needed.

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[H3] Surgery suites

Our dedicated surgical suites are designed with great care in mind, and hold advanced anaesthetic systems, pulse oxometers, blood pressure monitors and ECG.

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[H3] Ultrasonography

We use ultrasound to examine soft tissues, diagnose pregnancy and detect diseases, infections and cancers, allowing us to start suitable treatment quickly.

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[H3] Referrals

Our referral service Oakwood Veterinary Referrals offer orthopaedic and soft tissue surgeries, internal medicine, cardiology, dermatology and more.

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Our hip and elbow scoring services are designed to check whether parents may have a joint disease, and help prevent affected pets from breeding.

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[H3] Nurse clinics

We offer several different nurse clinics for your pets, covering a range of important areas of pet health.

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[H3] Senior pet health checks

Our health checks aim to identify senior health problems early and start treatment promptly, through consultations, blood and urine tests and blood pressure checks.

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[H3] End of life

We know how difficult it is to lose a pet, and are here to help you through the process with compassion and understanding.

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[H1] Welcome to the Willows Veterinary Group, a mixed practice looking after pets, farm animals and horses.

Willows Veterinary Group is a mixed practice group which means that we look after pets, farm animals and horses. The Willows Veterinary Group comprises 23 small animal practices throughout Cheshire, Manchester, Staffordshire and the Wirral. The farm practice operates from 5 offices across Cheshire and North Wales, and  our equine hospital, Ashbrook, is in Allostock.
Willows Veterinary Group is proud to be accredited by The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. The RCVS developed a voluntary scheme to ensure you, the pet owner, have the peace of mind that your pets are receiving the best possible veterinary care. This is known as the Practice Standards Scheme. Through setting standards and carrying out regular assessments, the Scheme aims to promote excellent veterinary care as standard. Be assured we won’t rest on our laurels just because we have this accreditation – we constantly strive to improve our service and facilities.

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When your pet sees your vet, it is like you seeing your doctor, and just as your doctor may refer you to a specialist, the same is true in the veterinary world. Willows Veterinary Group has our own referral centre – Oakwood Veterinary Referrals. Oakwood is staffed by specialist Vets in Orthopaedics, Soft Tissue Surgery, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, and Dermatology. Having our own referral centre means that all the practices within our group have access to the referral surgeons, and the very latest equipment and diagnostic techniques including MRI and CT scanners.
Willows Veterinary Group is delighted to offer our own Emergency Care in the majority of our branches. Willows Veterinary Hospital (our tier 3 RCVS accredited hospital), in Hartford and Beech House Veterinary Centre, in Stockton Heath, have dedicated night teams who can care for your pet 24/7, 365 days a year should they become unexpectedly ill or injured. The teams at the hospital and veterinary centre can get instant access to your pet’s records, and we truly believe this makes a difference when emergency care is needed for your pet.
It goes without saying that we all love pets – that’s why we do what we do. We are here to help you every step of the way and are always available for help and advice.

[H2] Read about the Willows Veterinary Group history

A veterinary practice has existed in Hartford since the 1930’s. But today’s modern practice dates from the early 60’s when, in 1962, Derek Carter, a 1961 Liverpool graduate came to assist John Twist – formerly of Wilson and Twist.
From being a three man, mainly farm animal practice in 1962, today’s Group is a multi-vet and multi-discipline team working from 25 centres, employing over 400 people.

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In the early days, Willows was a three-man farm practice that ran a small animal surgery once a week on a Sunday morning. Soon afterwards, Gareth Llewellyn, a fellow ’61 Liverpool graduate, joined and immediately set out to develop a small animal service. When John Twist left in 1964 the Carter-Llewellyn Partnership was created and two years later another Liverpool vet college friend, Gareth Williams arrived.

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The small animal business developed well and in 1968 the status of Small Animal Veterinary Hospital was awarded at Hartford; one of the very first in the North of England. Meanwhile, a surgery had been started in Winsford and a neighbouring practice in Weaverham was acquired.
In 1969, Mike Venables, a vet from the adjacent Alsager practice, joined as a partner and the nucleus of the original partnership was complete. A period of expansion followed, fuelled by the revenue from the MAFF Brucellosis and TB eradication schemes of the 1970’s. A farm practice was bought in Middlewich and a new surgery established there. New surgeries were subsequently added in Lymm and Warrington.
When Mike Venables retired from the farm practice in the late 70’s he pioneered the establishment of a small animal centre in Knutsford. The farm business grew further with the addition of work from two old established practitioners. Rodney Summer in South Liverpool and Hugh Ferguson in Warrington.

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The equine practice took a leap with its development in 1978 with the arrival of Alex Scott. He eventually left his shared role as a farm vet to inspire the building of ‘The Ashbrook Equine Hospital’ at Allostock, now a leading equine referral centre with state of the art facilities. Alex retired in 2015 after injuring his knee badly while attending a horse.
Mark Proctor joined in 1980 and developed the southern area of the farm practice, culminating in the purchase of a farm practice in Tarporley in 1992. From this, the concept of a separate animal health business was born, leading to the establishment of Beeston Animal Health in 1994.

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Morag Adams joined in 1981 and further developed Gareth Llewellyn’s original small animal hospital into the modern facility it is today. Morag has since moved to new pastures and the Hartford Hospital is run by Louise Parker, who began running the practice in 2019. Referral services of the highest standard are provided via Oakwood Referrals, under the leadership of European specialist, Charlie Sale.

[H1] 1986 – 1987

John Dawson joined the team in 1986 as a farm vet and was instrumental in expanding the northern area of the farm practice. In addition, he created his own cattle embryo transfer business, Embryonics, and organized numerous AI, Ultrasonography and Foot Trimming courses for farmers and other vets. John has since left to continue running the training business independently.
Simon Jones joined the farm side in 1987 and considerably expanded the business’s interests in the meat hygiene sector, Bovine Tuberculosis and export certification business. In later years, Simon became lead partner for the HR department of the group. Simon has since retired from the group in 2020.

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Beech House Veterinary Centre was relocated from its old site in Stockton Heath in 1988. This move, along with the modernisation in 2000, was overseen by Liz Crowsley, who became a partner in 1990. Liz subsequently ran the Hartford Small animal hospital but was tragically killed in 2010. Clients and colleagues alike still pay immense tribute to her Veterinary skills and superb bedside manner to this day.

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Surgery expansion has been mainly in the small animal division. With the addition of our branches in Wilmslow (1999), Runcorn (2001) and Acorn Veterinary Hospital in West Kirby (2001). A second practice in Northwich, plus one in Hale, were added to the group in 2004.

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Over the years several new partners have joined to expand the skill set and aid in the expansion and development of the small animal business. The farm practice also grew with the addition of new experienced vets. Roger Dixon joined in 2009 alongside Kerry Comb in the equine practice. Since Alex Scott left, they have continued to develop Ashbrook Equine Hospital.

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Since then new surgeries have been established in Alsager (2012), Denton and Birchwood, Warrington. Stewart McDonald’s surgery in Orford Lane, Warrington was acquired in 2015.
In 2013 the group took over the running of The Firs Veterinary Surgery in Kelsall from retiring vet Mick Christian. The surgery was later relocated to larger premises on Church Street.
In 2014 the group merged with Manor Court Veterinary Centre in Tarvin and Hampton Veterinary Centre in Malpas. Both these practices are ‘mixed’ species surgeries, Manor Court being Small Animal, Farm Animal and Avian whilst Hampton offers Small Animal services now. The merger brought new partners to the fold. In 2015 Willows Vet Group merged with the Charter Veterinary Surgeons based in Congleton, Biddulph, and Newcastle. The practice now offers small animal services from 5 sites based in Staffordshire and Cheshire.

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The Willows Veterinary Group joined VetPartners in 2018. VetPartners is made up of some of the UK’s most trusted and respected veterinary practices. The practice name will remain the same and so, too, will the high-quality veterinary care and service our clients expect.
We are confident we will continue to go from strength to strength with additional investment in technology, training and facilities to provide an outstanding level of care for animals.

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[H1] Pet Health Packages

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Pet Health Plan

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Breeder Pack