Two premises on the register, five vets and three nurses listed on the team page
RCVS premises register + practice website
Use cases
Find veterinary practices, owners and decision makers
Most of them are owner-run businesses whose entire web presence is written for pet owners. Search by species mix, branch count, ownership or region, and Causo reads the RCVS Register of Veterinary Practice Premises, Companies House filings, practice websites and vet job boards practice by practice, then shows you the evidence behind every match.
Run your first search6,522 registered veterinary practice premises in the UK, 3,586 of them RCVS accredited
How to find veterinary practices by species, size or location
3 results for this search. Pick another above to see what it returns.
Independent small animal practice near Halifax, four vets, in-house lab and digital radiography
Practice Standards Scheme + practice website
Branch surgeries in Hornsea and Withernsea, small animal only since the farm side was split out
RCVS premises register + Companies House
Illustrative example. The source types are the ones Causo genuinely reads for this market.
Where the data on veterinary practices comes from
- RCVS Register of Veterinary Practice PremisesEvery registered premises, the practice behind it and its Practice Standards accreditation
- Companies HouseOwning entity, directors, persons with significant control and filed accounts
- AVMA and US state veterinary boardsUS practice numbers, licensed facilities and premises permits state by state
- Local authority planning portalsNew surgeries, conversions and change-of-use applications
- Indeed, Greenhouse, LeverVet, nurse and practice manager vacancies as a timing signal
- Dun & BradstreetFirmographics and corporate linkage where available
- Google Maps listingsBranch addresses, opening hours and which sites are actually trading
- BVA, BSAVA and practice websitesSpecies mix, referral work, equipment and named clinical leads
- Plus many moreNo fixed provider list. If the answer lives somewhere else, the agents read that instead.
Ask anything about a veterinary practice
Every result is a starting point, not an endpoint. Ask a follow-up about any practice on your list in plain English and the agents go back out and read for it, then answer with the sources they used.
How many branches do they actually run?
AnswerFour premises on the register, though one is a branch surgery with no in-patient facilities and only two open on Saturdays.
SourcesRCVS premises register + the practice’s own site
Are they independent or owned by a group?
AnswerIndependent. Companies House lists two individuals as the persons with significant control and shows no parent company above them.
SourcesCompanies House PSC register + filed accounts
Do they do their own imaging or refer it out?
AnswerBoth. Digital radiography and ultrasound in house, and CT and MRI cases sent to a referral hospital.
SourcesPractice website + equipment named in their vet job ads
Why veterinary practices are missing from B2B databases
6,522registered veterinary practice premises in the UK, 3,586 of them RCVS accreditedRCVS Facts 2024
60%of UK vet practices are owned by six large groups, up from 10% in 2013Competition and Markets Authority, 2026
Contact databases are assembled from what companies publish about themselves: professional profiles, funding rounds, tech stacks, hiring pages. A veterinary practice publishes almost none of that. Everything it puts online is written for pet owners, because pet owners are the customer, so a profile-derived database skims a consultation-times page and records a small local business with no usable firmographics. Ownership makes it harder again. The name above the door and the name on the filings are frequently different, and a practice that was independent last year can sit inside a group this year without a word changing on its website. The evidence that answers a seller’s questions is published, just not where a database looks: the RCVS Register of Veterinary Practice Premises lists every premises and the practice it belongs to, the Practice Standards Scheme records which are accredited and at what level, Companies House holds the owning entity, its directors and its persons with significant control, and the recruitment ads say which sites are actually short of vets.
Figures as of August 2026.
Apollo vs ZoomInfo vs Causo for veterinary practice leads
| Apollo / ZoomInfo | Buying a list | Causo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owner-run practices with a pet-owner site and nothing else | Largely absent | Absent | Found on the RCVS premises register |
| Filtering on "two to four branches, still independent" | No such field | No such field | Expressed in plain English |
| Knowing whether a group has already bought them | Trading name only | Rarely mapped | Read from Companies House ownership |
| Reaching the owner or clinical director | Usually the front-desk address | Often bounced | Named role, verified address |
Frequently asked questions.
Start from the regulator rather than a database. Every veterinary practice premises in Great Britain has to appear on the RCVS Register of Veterinary Practice Premises, and the RCVS Practice Standards Scheme records which of those are accredited and at what level. Causo reads those registers alongside Companies House, local planning portals and vet job boards, so a practice whose only web presence is an opening-hours page is as findable as one with a marketing agency.
There were 6,522 registered veterinary practice premises in the UK according to RCVS Facts 2024, of which 3,586 were accredited under the RCVS Practice Standards Scheme. Premises rather than businesses is the unit that register counts, so a group running four branch surgeries appears four times.
Both statements are true at once, because the two are counted differently. The Competition and Markets Authority found that over 60% of UK veterinary practices are now owned in whole or in part by six large veterinary groups, up from just 10% in 2013, while 76% of veterinary businesses still run only one practice and those single-practice businesses account for 20% of all first opinion practices. In other words most of the practices belong to a handful of groups, and most of the businesses are still one surgery with an owner in the building.
Those databases are assembled largely from professional profiles and web signals that skew heavily toward software and services. Around 76% of UK veterinary businesses run a single practice, and an owner-vet who is in consults four days a week usually has no profile worth scraping, so the business never enters the database and no filter will surface it.
Yes, in plain English. Neither is a field in any contact database, so Causo works them out from the RCVS premises register and from Companies House ownership and persons with significant control, rather than looking them up. Each result comes back with the practice, why it matched, the evidence behind that with its source, and a named decision maker with a verified email address.
It depends on ownership. At an independent practice it is usually the owner-vet, the practice principal or the practice manager, and often the same person. At a site belonging to a large veterinary group the clinical director influences the choice but purchasing is frequently set centrally, so the practice manager is the route in and the group is where the contract sits. Causo surfaces the role alongside the practice so you can tell which of those you are looking at.
Yes. The sources differ by country, so Causo uses the local equivalents: in the United States that is the AVMA and the state veterinary boards, which license veterinary facilities and publish premises permits state by state, and elsewhere it is the national veterinary regulator, the company registry and whatever inspection or accreditation records that jurisdiction publishes.
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