Bury Road Veterinary Clinic – Vets in Bolton
Clinic Overview
- Positive reviews often focus on caring, reassuring treatment, including vaccination appointments, full health checks and effective flea treatment advice. - Several owners say staff handled nervous pets well, with examples including a puppy being kept calm over multiple visits and a separate back-door option for reactive dogs. - A recent neutering review was especially positive about communication and aftercare, with the owner saying they felt guided through the process from start to finish.
Bury Road Veterinary Clinic in Bolton is part of CVS and provides a broad range of first-opinion veterinary care, with out-of-hours support through PetMedics Veterinary Surgeons. Website-listed services cover routine and preventive care, surgery, diagnostics, nurse clinics, grooming support and home visits, with access to wider referral services across the group. Recent reviews describe caring handling for nervous or reactive pets, alongside some concerns about pricing and sales pressure.
Services
- •Routine appointments and preventive care, including consultations, six-month health checks, vaccinations, parasite control and microchipping. Recent reviews mention a cat receiving a flea assessment and stronger prescription flea drops, and another owner praising a full health check alongside vaccination.
- •Surgical and clinical care, including neutering, dentistry, soft tissue surgery, diagnostic testing and imaging, plus blood pressure checks and nurse clinics. One recent owner said they felt well guided through their cat’s neutering and recovery at home.
- •Supportive day-to-day care such as grooming, nail clipping, anal sac expression and home visits.
- •Access within the wider group to referral services including ophthalmology, orthopaedics, internal medicine, cardiology, ultrasonography and dermatology.
- •Reviews also highlight practical handling for more sensitive pets, including keeping an anxious puppy calm over repeated visits and having a back-door option for reactive dogs.
Pricing
Published prices suggest the clinic sits above average, based on a partial sample of comparable services. Reviews on cost are mixed: one owner described prices as good, while others felt the clinic was expensive and objected to what they saw as upselling, including a monthly pet plan cost of nearly £40 and a £300 pet funeral charge.
People
No individual staff members are named in recent reviews. Reception staff are repeatedly described as friendly and helpful, including explaining the Healthy Pet Club in detail, while vets and nurses are praised for keeping anxious pets calm, supporting owners through a neutering process, and handling reactive dogs thoughtfully.
Reviews
Google rating: 4.5/5 from 298 reviews. Recent feedback gives a mixed overall picture.
- •Positive reviews often focus on caring, reassuring treatment, including vaccination appointments, full health checks and effective flea treatment advice.
- •Several owners say staff handled nervous pets well, with examples including a puppy being kept calm over multiple visits and a separate back-door option for reactive dogs.
- •A recent neutering review was especially positive about communication and aftercare, with the owner saying they felt guided through the process from start to finish.
- •Pricing is the main source of criticism, with some owners describing the clinic as expensive or sales-led; there are also isolated serious complaints, including one about microchipping not being discussed and another about an eye-related visit with a poor outcome.

