Vet Cost Index

Documentation

About the Vet Cost Index dataset

Vet Cost Index will publish a UK-wide index of veterinary pricing captured from each practice’s CMA Vet Services price-transparency disclosure. This page documents what the dataset will contain at launch, the regulatory backdrop, the launch timeline tied to the CMA’s 2025 final report, and how to cite or license the dataset.

Pre-launch phase

The Vet Cost Index comparison index is in pre-launch. The CMA’s price-transparency remedies, ordered in 2025, are being phased in from 2026 onwards. Vet Cost Index captures each practice’s published disclosure as it goes live; the dataset shape and methodology below are stable and final.

See CMA Vet Services investigation: timeline and remedies for the full regulatory context.

What we will hold

  • Identity: practice name, trading name, full postal address, postcode, geocoded lat/lng, phone, website, RCVS Practice Standards Scheme accreditation tier, in-house out-of-hours capability flag.
  • Ownership: corporate ownership group (CVS Group, IVC Evidensia, Linnaeus / Mars Veterinary Health, Medivet, VetPartners, Pets at Home / Vets4Pets) or independent. The CMA’s remedies require this disclosure on every practice’s site; we surface it explicitly.
  • Service pricing: the 16 services in scope of the CMA Vet Services price-transparency requirement — consultations (in-hours and out-of-hours), vaccinations (dog primary, dog booster, cat primary, cat booster, kennel cough), microchipping, neuter (cat M, cat F, dog M, dog F), dental scale and polish, prescription dispensing fee, cremation (loose ashes and individual). Each row records the published price, VAT inclusion (or explicit absence), and any out-of-hours surcharge.
  • Provenance: source URL of the practice’s price-transparency page, capture timestamp, extraction method.

Regulatory backdrop

The Competition and Markets Authority published the final report of its UK Veterinary Services Market Investigation in 2025, ordering a package of remedies that includes mandatory price-transparency disclosure on every regulated UK vet practice’s website. The remedies are being phased in from 2026 onwards. The full text of the CMA’s implementing order is the authoritative source for the in-scope service definitions and disclosure requirements; we mirror those definitions in our schema.

How to cite

For press, academic and policy use we ask for citation in the following form:

Vet Cost Index, UK Vet Cost Index — [Quarter] [Year]. Indexeli Intelligence Limited. https://www.vetcostindex.co.uk/data

How to use it

  • Consumers: compare vet practices near you at /search.
  • Press & researchers: quarterly releases and methodology at /data. Free to cite with attribution as above.
  • Bulk / API access: for licensing the underlying dataset, contact markets@indexeli.com.

Editorial stance

Vet Cost Index is independent. We have no commercial relationships with vet practices, no paid placements, no referral fees, and no editorial influence from the entities covered. Every published price comes from a vet practice’s own legally mandated disclosure, with the source URL preserved for audit.