How to order
Prescription items

If you see the little red page icon and text  “Prescription Required” next to an item you’d like to order, it means the item can only be sold with a prescription. While you can add these items to your shopping cart and pay for them along with other non-prescription products, we cannot and will not dispatch them until we’ve received a prescription.

Veterinary prescriptions must be written in accordance with UK regulations and signed and dated by a veterinary surgeon who is registered in either the UK or Europe. And please note, that we can only send prescription medication to the same country where the prescription was issued in.

Each prescription is a legal document containing the written instructions from your vet that outlines which medication is needed, the amount to be supplied, the dosage, whether it is eligible for repeats or not, details about the animal, the veterinary surgeon who has prescribed it and confirmation that the animal is under their care.

How This Works

Visit your vets and get them to write a prescription. Your Vet is legally obliged to issue you with a prescription should they determine POM-V products are necessary, but they are allowed to make a reasonable charge for doing so. This is a nominal fee and should not be excessive or to prevent you from purchasing a product.

Prescription Form Download

If you need a blank prescription form to take to your vets, download our template Prescription Form

Got A Prescription?

Place your order and upload your prescription as you checkout.

1. Photograph & Upload – The quickest and easiest way is to photograph your prescription using your phone and upload it with your order (this is part of the checkout process.) – this method gets priority during the order fulfillment process.

2. Post – This method takes longer as we wait on the post to arrive and it is also a manual process. This process is only required for a specific medication. Please write your order number on your prescription before posting.

Post too: 

Farm Vet Services

57b Station Road

Clogher

BT760AQ

When submitting your prescription to us by post, you MUST write your order number on the top of the prescription. Otherwise, your order will take longer to process.

We Check Your Prescription And Pop It In The Post!

We verify the authenticity of all prescriptions received. If we receive a prescription that is invalid, forged or altered, we’ll have no option but to de-activate the sender’s account. It is a criminal offense to alter a prescription and as animal lovers, we adopt a zero-tolerance approach. We will report any offenses to the Veterinary Medicines Directorate.

Altered Prescriptions

You are advised that the Veterinary Medicines Regulations (“VMR”) were amended in 2009 to make it a criminal offense to tamper with a written prescription. Schedule 3 Part 5(3) of the VMR states that ‘no person may alter a written prescription unless authorized to do so by the person who signed it. Pet Drugs Online has a zero-tolerance policy for altered or forged prescriptions. We check all prescriptions received to verify their authenticity. Where we suspect the prescription has been illegally amended, altered, or tampered with we will immediately notify you and contact the relevant veterinary practice. If our suspicions are confirmed by the relevant practice we shall immediately cancel the whole of the order in which the altered prescription is included, de-activate the relevant user account, and report the misuse to the Veterinary Medicines Directorate.

If we suspect the authenticity of a prescription and that it has been created fraudulently using a veterinary surgeon’s identity, in addition to the above measures, we shall report the matter to the police who will deal with it as a matter of fraud.

Whilst we endeavor to ensure all Prescription Only items prices displayed on our website are accurate, occasionally there may be some fluctuation due to the manufacturer’s price increase or specific order requirements. In such cases, we will contact you to advise you of the revised price once we have your prescription.

Regulation

We are registered as a Veterinary Practice Premises with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.

Our premises reference number is: 7347961.

You can verify our status by contacting the RCVS directly, their contact details are available on the RCVS website.

Our RQP Patrick Finnegan(BVMS MRCVS) & Stephen Hazelton (BVMS MRCVS).

This can be verified by visiting the register list at RCVS.

Owner & Registered Business Address

The owner of the business is Patrick Finnegan & Stephen Hazelton :

Farm Vet Services

57b Station Road

Clogher

BT760AQ

Phone: 028 8556 9117

Company No. NI663006

VAT No. 329678454

Company Registered in Northern Ireland

Veterinary Medicines Directorate

The Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) is the government agency responsible for issues concerning the use and manufacture of veterinary medicines in the UK.

The Summary of Product Characteristics (SPCs) for all the medicinal products sold on this site are available from the Veterinary Medicine’s Directorate Product Information Database.

Adverse Reactions

No effective medicine is risk-free and all medicines have the potential to cause adverse effects. Some of the adverse effects are known when a veterinary medicine is first licensed, but those which occur rarely or are specific to certain breeds or groups of animals only come to light later when the products are used more widely.

In the event of an adverse reaction to any medicinal product, it should be reported to the Veterinary Medicines Directorate using this form, you should also report it to your vet.

Guidance For Animals Owners

For guidance and advice for animal owners please visit the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) website.