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Across the UK, the median cost of the items ticked below is £863 paying as you go for a medium dog, or £701 on the practice’s health plan (12 monthly fees plus what it doesn’t cover). Choose your area and what to include. Every total is worked out practice by practice from their own price lists, checked weekly.
£863median · lowest £455 · 1,044 practices
£701median · lowest £384 · 1,533 practices
12 monthly fees plus what the plan doesn’t cover.
Some plans have a higher level, such as IVC’s Plus or CVS’s Advanced, that includes more for a higher fee. Practices with a one-level plan use that plan either way.
Couldn’t load the latest prices, so the figures shown are for the whole UK and the items ticked to start with.
Median: half the practices that publish every price you’ve ticked charge less, half charge more. Compare each practice near you.
Flea, tick and worm treatment is priced online (Bravecto every 3 months and a worming tablet every 3 months, at the cheapest pharmacy we check) plus the practice’s written prescription fee. On a health plan, each practice’s own plan (or its group’s) is used: what it includes costs nothing extra, its discounts come off the rest, and its 12 monthly fees are added. Compare the main health plans.
| Area | Pay as you go | Health plan | Practices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bath | £921 | £676 | 12 |
| Belfast | £673 | £589 | 18 |
| Birmingham | £967 | £670 | 29 |
| Blackburn | £918 | £865 | 11 |
| Blackpool | £918 | £693 | 3 |
| Bournemouth | £890 | £706 | 6 |
| Bradford | £903 | £797 | 9 |
| Brighton | £975 | £867 | 28 |
| Bristol | £1,011 | £739 | 33 |
| Bromley | £1,168 | £945 | 6 |
| Cambridge | £802 | £695 | 6 |
| Canterbury | £967 | £801 | 8 |
| Cardiff | £822 | £659 | 10 |
| Carlisle | £753 | £629 | 3 |
| Chelmsford | £989 | £872 | 14 |
| Chester | £775 | £711 | 18 |
| Colchester | £852 | £724 | 9 |
| Coventry | £830 | £637 | 16 |
| Crewe | £804 | £662 | 8 |
| Darlington | £808 | £661 | 3 |
| Dartford | £989 | £869 | 7 |
| Derby | £948 | £745 | 19 |
| Dorchester | £892 | £767 | 4 |
| Dudley | £756 | £669 | 15 |
| Dundee | £896 | £837 | 5 |
| Durham | £771 | £668 | 3 |
| East London | £839 | £646 | 7 |
| Edinburgh | £964 | £770 | 14 |
| Enfield | £922 | £900 | 8 |
| Exeter | £866 | £709 | 13 |
| Falkirk | £926 | £784 | 5 |
| Galashiels | £780 | £675 | 3 |
| Glasgow | £821 | £672 | 19 |
| Gloucester | £921 | £732 | 22 |
| Guildford | £809 | £715 | 23 |
| Harrow | £879 | £615 | 4 |
| Hemel Hempstead | £1,067 | £927 | 11 |
| Hereford | £782 | £751 | 5 |
| Huddersfield | £713 | £590 | 4 |
| Hull | £1,083 | £782 | 9 |
| Inverness | £960 | £856 | 7 |
| Ipswich | £896 | £738 | 15 |
| Kilmarnock | £963 | £836 | 6 |
| Kingston upon Thames | £957 | £825 | 6 |
| Kirkcaldy | £808 | £690 | 4 |
| Lancaster | £919 | £823 | 8 |
| Leeds | £931 | £796 | 16 |
| Leicester | £725 | £612 | 15 |
| Lincoln | £887 | £817 | 8 |
| Liverpool | £804 | £671 | 6 |
| Llandudno | £721 | £674 | 13 |
| Luton | £882 | £826 | 4 |
| Manchester | £761 | £662 | 5 |
| Medway | £803 | £707 | 12 |
| Milton Keynes | £970 | £772 | 9 |
| Motherwell | £796 | £783 | 4 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | £856 | £712 | 15 |
| Newport | £1,040 | £904 | 14 |
| North London | £651 | £625 | 4 |
| North West London | £894 | £687 | 3 |
| Northampton | £960 | £828 | 13 |
| Norwich | £984 | £721 | 10 |
| Nottingham | £743 | £673 | 13 |
| Oldham | £745 | £629 | 6 |
| Oxford | £897 | £718 | 14 |
| Paisley | £958 | £771 | 4 |
| Perth | £896 | £867 | 6 |
| Peterborough | £834 | £686 | 21 |
| Plymouth | £1,030 | £708 | 12 |
| Portsmouth | £1,003 | £699 | 14 |
| Preston | £748 | £765 | 9 |
| Reading | £874 | £736 | 11 |
| Redhill | £932 | £717 | 6 |
| Romford | £749 | £533 | 5 |
| Salisbury | £841 | £690 | 4 |
| Sheffield | £776 | £662 | 21 |
| Shrewsbury | £896 | £667 | 3 |
| Slough | £997 | £739 | 6 |
| South East London | £1,061 | £889 | 4 |
| South West London | £882 | £794 | 5 |
| Southampton | £981 | £697 | 14 |
| Southend-on-Sea | £780 | £634 | 5 |
| St Albans | £865 | £705 | 4 |
| Stevenage | £953 | £715 | 10 |
| Stockport | £800 | £642 | 5 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | £767 | £662 | 11 |
| Sunderland | £730 | £724 | 3 |
| Swansea | £827 | £641 | 11 |
| Swindon | £818 | £640 | 11 |
| Taunton | £915 | £832 | 13 |
| Teesside | £725 | £684 | 8 |
| Telford | £678 | £640 | 3 |
| Tonbridge | £868 | £796 | 15 |
| Torquay | £895 | £696 | 9 |
| Truro | £794 | £683 | 3 |
| Twickenham | £928 | £915 | 10 |
| Wakefield | £705 | £563 | 12 |
| Walsall | £983 | £817 | 14 |
| Warrington | £734 | £634 | 9 |
| Watford | £823 | £656 | 7 |
| West London | £1,166 | – | 3 |
| Wigan | £738 | £675 | 3 |
| Wolverhampton | £967 | £837 | 11 |
| Worcester | £890 | £801 | 10 |
| York | £725 | £710 | 10 |
For the items ticked to start with and a medium dog. Listed A to Z.
Across the 1,044 UK practices we check that publish every price, the median cost is £863 paying as you go, or £701 on the practice’s health plan, for puppy vaccination course, microchipping, neutering, 2 vet consultations (besides the vaccination visits), kennel cough vaccine, flea, tick and worm treatment (a year). Checked 2 November 2026.
It depends on what your pet needs. A plan usually includes vaccinations and flea and worm treatment, and gives discounts on other treatment, for a monthly fee. Tick what your pet will need above to compare the two for your area.
Prices are taken from each practice’s own published price list, include VAT and are for a standard, straightforward case. We check every practice once a week; these prices were last updated on 2 November 2026. Always confirm with the practice before booking. How we collect and show prices.
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