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Prescription, dispensing and administration

Medicine administration fee (injection) prices at UK vets

A fee for giving a medicine by injection under the skin or into a muscle, as the item's official name says.

Published prices

No practice on our list publishes this price yet: vet businesses with 15 or more practices or out-of-hours centres must publish it, if they offer it, on each practice's website from 23 December 2026, and smaller practices from 23 March 2027.

What it is

The Order does not define what else it includes.

Official price-list name: Medicine administration fee - injections under the skin or into the muscle (CMA Order, Schedule 1).

What's included

  • Anything that is an essential part of the service, and VAT (Art. 7(2)(d) and (f))

Why the price varies

  • Whether the medicine is included. Ask whether the fee covers the injection only or the drug as well.
  • Whether a consultation is charged too. If the injection is given during a consultation, ask how the two are charged.
  • Your pet's band. Where the price depends on species or weight, the list must show it for a cat and five dog bands, from under 10 kg to 60 kg and over (Art. 7(2)(c)). A practice that charges the same for every animal shows one price.

Questions to ask the practice

  • Does this price include the medicine, or only giving it?
  • Is a consultation fee charged as well?

We explain prices, not treatment. Ask your vet about the clinical choices for your own pet.

The rules

What the practice's price list must show, with the Order's article references

The exact name from Schedule 1, “Medicine administration fee - injections under the skin or into the muscle”, with no free-text description (Art. 7(2)(a)).

As for every item: each version on its own line with the standard one marked, a cat price and five dog bands where the price depends on the animal, and VAT included, kept up to date and changed before a higher price is charged (Art. 7(2)(b), (c), (f) and (g), and 7(5)).

Large vet groups must publish from 23 December 2026 and smaller practices from 23 March 2027 (Art. 3 and 7).

Unhappy with a bill or a price? Our guide explains how to complain, from the practice's own process to free mediation.

Questions

Can I buy the medicine elsewhere and bring it in?

Ask your vet. Written prescriptions do not have to be offered where there is a clinical need for a vet or nurse to give the medicine (Art. 14(16) and 15(3)).

Why might my bill be higher than the listed price?

Listed prices are for the typical case. Each price list must say so, and must warn that prices may go up in more complex or complicated cases (Art. 7(2)(l)). The price must still include anything that is an essential part of the service (Art. 7(2)(d)).

How up to date are the prices here?

Every price shows the date we last checked it and links to the practice's own page. We re-check weekly, and daily from 23 to 31 December 2026. If a price looks wrong, email [email protected].

Sources

How we get prices

Vet prescription fees in the UK: the new £21.40 cap and buying pet medicines elsewhereWhat vets may charge for a written prescription under the CMA Order, when the caps start, what the CMA found practices were charging, and how to buy your pet's medicine from another retailer.Vet consultation fees in the UK: first, repeat, nurse and out-of-hours appointmentsHow much a vet consultation costs, what the CMA found, why first and repeat appointments are priced differently, and why the appointment length now sits next to the price.What the CMA vet price rules mean for pet ownersFrom 23 December 2026 big vet groups must publish a standard price list. Here is what changes, when, and what you can do with it.