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Bridge Referrals
Bridge Referrals is the North East’s newest veterinary referral centre for small animals. Our modern, high tech and innovative facility will be accepting all referral cases.
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Small Animal Veterinary Referrals
We are an exciting new independent multidisciplinary small animal veterinary referral hospital based in South Tyneside. Bridge Referrals offers advanced veterinary services from experienced referral clinicians to primary care veterinary practices in the North of England and Southern Scotland. We offer a holistic, collaborative approach in treating your pets, giving them the best possible outcomes. Our multidisciplinary team can offer referrals in orthopaedics and soft tissue surgery, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, diagnostic imaging, internal medicine and oncology.
Bridge Referrals is owned by families local to the area. We are proud of the North East’s picturesque countryside and wildlife, we have put sustainability at the heart of how we created and run Bridge Referrals to minimise our impact on our local environment.
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Be part of our dynamic new veterinary referral hospital in the North East.
Learn and thrive in a friendly, team orientated environment. Email us to find out more…
Key Services
Cardiology
Diagnostic imaging
Internal medicine
Neurosurgery
Oncology
Ophthalmology
Orthopaedics
Physiotherapy
Soft tissue surgery
Mission statement
“Providing excellent service and exceptional standards of care for our patients, clients and
community by bridging the gap between first opinion practices and referral centres. We forge
relationships with our referring vets making referring a patient a friendly and seamless process”
Blog
Don’t break their hearts this Valentine’s Day!
At Bridge Cardiology, we want to fix broken hearts. But on this day of love, when people often go out for a special meal, I thought I’d discuss some things in a pet's diet that may help their heart! There are a number of supplements that are useful to help if your pet has heart disease. I will go through them all and talk about what they are and when they are used. There is also some ongoing discussion about Grain Free foods and whether they can cause heart disease, so I thought it would be useful to cover some…
Tibial Plateau Levelling Osteotomy Surgery at Bridge Referrals
Tibial Plateau Levelling Osteotomy (TPLO) surgery is a very popular and effective procedure for treating cranial cruciate ligament injuries in dogs. At Bridge Referrals, it plays a significant role in helping pets regain mobility and comfort. Sula's story Sula presented to our orthopaedic department with a history of right hind limb lameness. Examination and radiographs confirmed that Sula had completely ruptured her right cranial cruciate ligament, this is a very common injury in dogs. TPLO was performed and this involved cutting the top of the tibia, rotating the bone to reduce the tibial plateau angle and securing the two parts…
Another successful Craniectomy surgery performed by Bridge Referrals multidisciplinary team!
Bridge Referrals Veterinary Centre is pleased to announce the team has successfully performed a second craniectomy surgery. This is a rare and highly specialised procedure that showcases commitment and ability to provide advanced care for pets in need. In this case a craniectomy was performed after Meningioma was presented to the clinical team in a cat. Meningioma is the most common primary brain tumour in cats and develops slowly from the layers which surround the brain. They are typically benign, but due to the skull, this growth puts pressure on the brain which results in slow, progressive clinical signs including…
