Barnstaple Veterinary Clinic (Market Vets)

- Recent reviewers frequently describe the team as friendly, caring, professional, and efficient, with a calm and welcoming atmosphere from reception through to the vets and nurses. - Quick access remains a strong theme, with several owners mentioning fast appointments for urgent problems, including holiday visitors needing help at short notice. - Communication is repeatedly praised, especially around taking time to answer questions, explaining treatment clearly, and helping owners feel relaxed and informed.

Services

•General veterinary care and wellness support: Routine consultations, general health checks, and wellness support remain part of the practice’s offering. Reviews continue to mention vets taking time to explain findings, answer questions, and keep owners informed during diagnosis and treatment.
•Urgent appointments: Recent experiences include being seen at very short notice for painful back problems and other urgent concerns, including for people who were away on holiday or not yet registered with the practice.
•Small animal, exotic, and farm care: The clinic’s stated scope includes small animals, exotics, and farm animals. Review examples include care for dogs with back pain or ongoing illness, as well as earlier feedback about a hamster being seen quickly and treated with prescribed medication.
•Additional practical services: Pet travel services are listed, along with safe disposal of unused, leftover, or out-of-date pet medicines.
•End-of-life and longer-term support: Reviews continue to describe compassionate help with long-term conditions and sensitive support when euthanasia is needed.

Pricing

No published pricing information is currently available for this clinic.

People

•Annie (vet): Thanked for care and support during a dog’s longer-term illness, with owners praising her advice and commitment.
•Ellie (vet): Mentioned for kind, compassionate support during euthanasia and for helping owners through a very difficult time.
•Rachel (staff member; role not specified): Praised for being especially kind and patient with a large dog.

Reviews

Google rating: 4.7 stars from 394 reviews.

•Recent reviewers frequently describe the team as friendly, caring, professional, and efficient, with a calm and welcoming atmosphere from reception through to the vets and nurses.
•Quick access remains a strong theme, with several owners mentioning fast appointments for urgent problems, including holiday visitors needing help at short notice.
•Communication is repeatedly praised, especially around taking time to answer questions, explaining treatment clearly, and helping owners feel relaxed and informed.
•Compassionate handling stands out in both routine and difficult situations, including care for nervous dogs, support with ongoing conditions, and sensitive end-of-life care. One recent reviewer also described the clinic’s charges as reasonable.

Reviews for Barnstaple Veterinary Clinic (Market Vets)

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Note: Showing the 10 most recent Google reviews out of 394 we track in total. Recent reviews may not be representative of overall sentiment.

Kevin Potts

1 week ago

Could not fault my visit with my Dog all of the staff were really friendly and efficient and the Vet was excellent with my nervous sprocker

Anne Rayner

2 weeks ago

Such a caring friendly professional vets practice. Could not got better care for Wilbur my Dandie Dinmont Terrier when he developed back problems this week. Your time and expertise was greatly appreciated

Joanna Carswell

Friendly staff, clean and tidy and very efficient. Our dogs love going in.

Stephen O'Shea

We are so grateful to the team who came to our rescue while were on holiday here - our dog was suffering from a bad back spasm and in enormous pain and distress. We were seen at very short notice and the vet was so kind and gentle with him. Thank you so much, you're all a credit to your profession 🙏

Yvonne Want

Market vets We were made to fill relaxed and comfortable all the staff are brilliant from receptionist, nurses and vets, the prices they charge are very reasonable we felt very comfortable and they did not mind that we both asked questions and all of them was answered such a lovely experience total different from Charter vets which we are very pleased to say we have left with no regrets what so ever. Highly recommend this vets to anyone

Bernice Cox

6 months ago

Julie Jones

7 months ago

I didn’t already have a vet but when I was concerned about my dog they saw me almost straight away I was met at the reception by lovely staff and the vet was so good with her and explained everything to me and kept me in the loop about costs as we were going through the diagnosis

Jennifer Clarke

Gaynor Jones

8 months ago

Needed a vet while on holiday. Excellent. Superfast appointment and treatment prescribed. Lovely vet. Highly recommended.

Rebecca Selley

9 months ago

Couldn’t speak highly enough of all the vets we’ve seen recently with our dog Jessie. They really tried so hard to help her condition and never pressured us into anything just gave us the advice we needed. Unfortunately after months of trying to stabilise her condition we had to make the awful decision to let her go to sleep. We cannot thank both Annie and Ellie enough for the care they gave to Jessie. Ellie was so caring and kind right to the end. Exactly what we needed at such a hard time for us.