08/07/2025
Vets are so expensive…
⚖️We sit quietly about a lot of matters, but we wanted to add some balance to this debate that vets are expensive.
ℹThis is a recent invoice sent to one of our clients for a routine vaccination at her yard (for one horse)
🛻Our client lives 30 miles away from the practice – a 60 mile round trip.
📅Our vet spent 45 minutes in the car getting to the yard. To become a vet, she has undergone five years of intense training, and has a further seven years of invaluable equine veterinary experience.
🛻The car is of course insured, taxed, MOT’d, has running costs and requires fuel.
Once there, she spent 15 minutes chatting to the owner about Spud’s health, listened to her heart, checked that the horse presented was the one on the passport, and administered the vaccine.
ℹShe then filled in Spud’s passport, logging important data like the batch number, before recording them on the LLEP system.
➡Once back at the practice, our vet has paperwork to complete as they create an invoice.
➡After this is on the system, one of our client care team then checks the invoice and emails it to the client.
➡Once the payment is received, another member of our team reconciles the invoice against the payment which is inputted onto our accounting system.
ℹCost of LLEP vaccine: £49
ℹCost of 30 mile travel on a Flexi Visit Day: £21
ℹTotal cost of invoice to client: £70
➡As a comparison:
ℹCost of Flu Vaccine on the NHS: Approx £20
ℹCost of Tetanus on the NHS: £35-46
ℹCost of fuel per mile as per Government recommended guidelines : £27.
𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘃𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗲: 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀
💙At Loch Leven Equine Practice we understand that you don’t want to compromise on quality, but we also know that saving every pound makes a difference.
Here are some of the ways that we can help you cut down the cost of your routine veterinary work: https://lochlevenequine.co.uk/client-info/saving-money/
