LANGLEY Park VETS- Opening july 2025
A new home for animal care is coming to Langley Park
Our Mission
We’re delighted to announce that Langley Park Vets will soon be opening its doors. We hope to be open for registration on July 1st 2025 and to be open and to start practising two weeks later on July 15th 2025.
It’s been a long process, we’ve had to overcome any number of obstacles, but it looks like we’ve got there! We know it’s been anything but a secret and we’re looking forward to welcoming lots of animals to the surgery. The transformation from a sweet shop at the front and a knitting shop at the back to a veterinary practice has not been easy, but we’re sure it will be worthwhile.
About us!
The Vets
We’re independent! This means everything to us. We became vets to treat sick animals and to try to prevent healthy animals from getting sick. We hope and believe that, by establishing our own practice, we’ll be able to fulfil this ambition. Every animal is different, and we hope to be able to treat each animal according to its needs. We’ve designed the clinic mindful, first and foremost, of the animals; and we’ve tried to make it as comfortable as possible for them. They are, needless to say, the ones who matter. It’s pretty simple. We’re here to do our best for them.
The Staff
There are two of us: Henry Sheen and Lisa Paterson, with a combined 40 years’ experience in veterinary practice. We both consider ourselves general practitioners with wide experience of most species. We’re the directors, but frankly, we are just vets, having qualified from Edinburgh years ago. We’ve worked in the Northeast most of our careers, so we’ll be familiar faces to any number of clients in the area. Lisa’s grandfather was a vet in Durham, so she has a very long-established veterinary lineage in the region. Henry has nothing of the sort, but he takes his inspiration from Cuthbert, the great Northern Saint, whose feet used to be washed by the otters as he emerged from another freezing night spent in the North Sea. Henry does not spend his nights in the North Sea, but loves the fish and the fowl which live in and around it
What we offer
Vaccinations, microchipping, neutering
Healthcare plans which can be adopted to the needs of the animal
In-house diagnostics: blood tests, digital x-rays and ultrasound
In-house surgery
In-house dentistry
Export licences for registered clients
The surgery is one area which we are keen to develop. The recent trend has been to refer cases for the type of surgery which was once routinely carried out in general practice. While there are any number of cases where the expertise and the diagnostic equipment of referral centres is required to achieve a successful outcome, we may be able to offer an alternative in a lot of cases. Such surgeries include BOAS surgery, anal sacculectomies, basic (easy!) orthopaedics and many others. If unsure, please ask.