To make an appointment at the surgery, or for out of hours and emergency calls
| please telephone: | 01347 838888 |
or email: reception@galtresvets.co.uk
| please telephone: | 01347 838888 |
We are a small, friendly, independent veterinary practice providing equine and small animal care, based in Flawith, near Easingwold,
North Yorkshire. We cover a large area around our practice for visits and have excellent inpatient facilities at the surgery.
Our services include consultations and visits, including equine zone visits, equine and small animal health schemes, full surgical and inpatient facilities including stables, radiography, ultrasonography, endoscopy, gastroscopy, dentistry, surgery, vettings (pre-purchase examinations) and second opinions.
We have 14 staff in total, including 7 vets, and we also provide 24-hour emergency cover, so we are here for you
when you need us the most. The Practice is owned by experienced vets, Malcolm and Joyce Whitehead.
For more details on who works at the practice CLICK HERE
If you have any non-urgent enquiries, please email or telephone the office between 8.30am and 6pm Monday to Friday on 01347 838888.
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After 41 years in veterinary practice, Malcolm and Joyce are hanging up their stethoscopes and will be retiring from clinical work, although they will still own the practice.
What does this mean? Nothing will be changing. Galtres has not been sold and the practice will be running as normal with our wonderful vets, Emily, Debbie, Lucy, Chloe, Cara and Ellie, taking the helm. Along with the excellent support of Liz, our practice manager and the rest of the Galtres team, this will ensure that you will still be greeted by the same familiar faces.
Malcolm graduated from Cambridge in 1983, having grown up near Leeds. He took his first job in a mixed practice in Lancashire, but mainly being involved in the equine side. This was where he met Joyce, as she started the same year at the same practice. After 2 years he moved to another big mixed practice in Cheshire. However, he wanted to specialise in equine so hence the move to North Yorkshire where he took a position with Keith Schubert in 1987, in a purely equine practice at this point based in Crayke. This is the basis of Galtres vets, as when Keith retired the practice moved to Flawith.
Joyce graduated from Glasgow also in 1983, having grown up in Inverness. Joyce had 2 years in that first job then a period in West Yorkshire also in a small animal practice. After they married in 1986 and Malcolm taking a North Yorkshire job, Joyce found a small animal job in York where she stayed for 6 years until having their children. By this time they had moved to Flawith and began small animal work within the practice.
Galtres Veterinary Surgery has been owned by Malcolm and Joyce and based at Flawith for nearly 30 years. They both feel very privileged to have had the chance to develop the practice to where it is now and treat so many remarkable animals for so long and get to know so many great colleagues and owners along the way.
I’m sure you’ll join us in thanking M&J for their fabulous service to all our beloved pets
We look forward to an exciting 2025 and beyond!
Our popular Gastro Scope clinic returns. We’re offering Gastroscopy at a fantastic price of £180 including sedation and an over-night stay, which is an incredible 50% reduction.
Only limited spaces available so please get in touch if you would like to secure a place. Any other queries on our clinic please contact the surgery by email on reception@galtresvets.co.uk or call 01347 838888.
On arrival, a full detailed history is taken, they will then be settled in their stable for the night and have no access to feed to ensure they have an empty stomach for the scope, which will take place first thing the following morning. Findings from the scope can be recorded and images shared with owner on request.
If ulcers are present, treatment options can be discussed with the vet at the time of diagnosis.
Gastroscopy is when a 3 metre long fibre optic camera is passed up through the nostrils and is then swallowed by the horse into the stomach.
Gastric (stomach) ulcers are sores that form on the stomach lining. Common in horses at any age but occur most frequently in horses that perform athletic activities such as racing, endurance, eventing and showing. Exercise is known to increase gastric acid production and decreases blood flow to the GI tract.
Symptoms can include -
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