Stone Lion Veterinary Hospital (Goddard)

Stone Lion Veterinary Hospital is an RCVS-accredited Goddard Veterinary Group hospital within VetPartners, offering hospital-level care in Wandsworth. It is set up for emergency treatment, inpatient stays and round-the-clock monitoring, with reviews describing overnight admissions, holiday-night care and regular updates while pets are hospitalised. Recent feedback is largely positive about clinical care, kindness and communication, though a minority of owners report delays, medication issues and concerns about cost or discharge communication.

Services

• •Emergency and urgent care, including late-evening appointments, holiday night-shift care, and treatment for sudden illness or injury. Recent examples include an injured kitten, a cat emergency late in the evening, and dogs seen for severe pain, vomiting and abdominal discomfort.
• •Hospitalisation and inpatient care, including overnight stays and round-the-clock treatment. Owners describe pets being admitted for monitoring, daily updates, and in some cases the option to visit while a pet is hospitalised.
• •Surgery and aftercare, with reviews mentioning eye removal surgery (enucleation) after a persistent eye infection, followed by sensitive aftercare.
• •Diagnostics and more complex case management, including blood tests during an overnight stay and access to a heart specialist for a dog with a heart murmur.
• •Routine preventive care from the clinic’s website information, including annual vaccination with a full clinical examination, flea and worming treatment, microchip implantation, and a nurse health assessment after six months.
• •Routine procedure discounts are listed for neutering, dental procedures, kennel cough vaccination, and tick protection.
• •The clinic is also listed as a veterinary nurse training facility.

Pricing

No published pricing information is currently available for this clinic.

People

• •Dr Laurence is praised in multiple reviews for calm, kind handling in emergencies, including a Christmas Eve night shift and a late-evening cat visit.
• •Laura Ruiz Oliver is thanked for a thorough assessment, clear explanations, and prompt pain relief and treatment for a dog with a neck injury.
• •Dr Jess is mentioned positively for answering questions clearly, and Dr Francesca for explaining a dog’s condition carefully and writing information down to support understanding.
• •Adam is mentioned as a heart specialist involved in a heart murmur case.
• •Alex is named positively by a long-term client, alongside front-desk team Lyndsey and Annette.
• •Anita, Emily and Andrew were thanked for compassionate care in a life-threatening cat emergency.
• •Sergio, described as a locum nurse, is named negatively in one complaint about communication and attitude.

Reviews

Google reviews show 4.1/5 from 206 reviews.

• •Recent feedback is strongly positive about emergency and inpatient care, with owners describing good outcomes in serious cases including a life-threatening cat emergency, an accident-related admission, severe illness, and a persistent eye infection requiring surgery.
• •Compassion and communication are common strengths in positive reviews. Owners mention clear explanations, feeling reassured in urgent situations, and regular updates while pets were in hospital, sometimes twice a day.
• •The wider team is often praised as well as individual vets, with repeated positive mentions for the reception staff and nurses being friendly, patient and efficient.
• •Critical reviews focus mainly on communication and logistics rather than overall service range: delayed callbacks, medication not being ready or pills missing, long discharge waits, and some complaints that costs were high or treatment and test results were not explained clearly enough.