Pet Emergency Hospital – Vets in Belfield
Clinic Overview
Pet Emergency Hospital in Belfield, Dublin is a university veterinary hospital offering both primary care and referral-level treatment for small and large animals. It provides 24-hour hospital care for patients, including overnight monitoring when needed, and the website highlights advanced diagnostics and specialist services. Recent feedback continues to focus on emergency treatment, complex investigations, and follow-up communication, alongside sharply mixed experiences around costs and some aspects of inpatient and post-operative care.
Services
- •24-hour hospital and emergency care: The hospital offers round-the-clock inpatient and emergency care, with reviews mentioning late-night and weekend visits, Christmas Eve treatment, seizure cases, and overnight monitoring after procedures.
- •Small animal medicine and surgery: This includes routine and urgent care, with recent examples such as surgery for a puppy that had swallowed a stone, treatment for a broken leg, and care for pets with chronic illnesses.
- •Diagnostics and referral investigations: Website-listed facilities and services include diagnostic imaging, diagnostic laboratories, anaesthesia, and endoscopy. Owners also mention longer investigations with detailed assessments, staged plans, and follow-up calls or emails.
- •Advanced and specialist services: The hospital lists cardiology, neurology, oncology, dermatology, urology, endocrinology, enterology, orthopaedic surgery, soft tissue surgery, surgical neurology and oncology, reconstructive surgery, wound management, reproductive surgery, rehabilitation, and physiotherapy.
- •Large-animal and equine care: Website information also includes equine medicine, large animal surgery, a farm animal clinic, herd health, and reproduction services.
- •Species treated and recognition: The website includes dogs, cats, horses, cattle, sheep, exotic animals, and zoo animals, and says the hospital is recognised by the Veterinary Council of Ireland and the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.
Pricing
No published pricing information is currently available for this clinic.
People
- •Dr Katie: Named by a reviewer for helping with a cat’s long-term medical investigation, with particular praise for follow-up calls, emails, test updates, and clear next-step planning.
- •Wider team: Reviews also mention reception staff, nurses, and vets, with positive comments about professionalism, detailed assessments, and compassionate support during emergencies and bereavement.
Reviews
Pet Emergency Hospital has a 4.5/5 Google rating from 1,172 reviews. Recent written feedback is strongly mixed, with warm praise for emergency care and compassion from some owners, and serious complaints from others about fees, communication, and standards of inpatient or follow-up care.
- •Emergency care is a major reason people use the hospital: positive reviews mention urgent visits on nights, weekends, and Christmas Eve, as well as treatment for a broken leg and other acute problems.
- •Compassion and professionalism are praised by many owners: reviewers highlight caring staff during very difficult cases, including end-of-life support and thoughtful bereavement handling such as returning ashes with a paw-print keepsake.
- •Communication and assessment are seen positively in some cases: owners mention detailed assessments, helpful reception staff, and clear explanations that supported decision-making for chronically ill pets.
- •Negative feedback centres on cost and aspects of care: several reviews complain about high bills, payment expectations before treatment, long waits, medication access, unclear diagnoses, concerns about overnight monitoring, and dissatisfaction with post-operative follow-up.
