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Pet Med Direct • Northern Ireland
Pet Medication Northern Ireland
Pet Med Direct supplies pet medication to customers in Northern Ireland. It is an online service provided by Farm Vet Services, which is listed on the Veterinary Medicines Directorate Register of Online Retailers as a Northern Ireland retailer.
Browse eligible products, order online, and where an item is prescription-only, supply a valid prescription from your own veterinary surgeon before the medicine is prepared.
Looking for the Northern Ireland prescription process specifically? See our dedicated guide to pet prescriptions in Northern Ireland.
- Operated by Farm Vet Services
- RCVS Veterinary Oversight
- VMD Registered Online Retailer
- UK Delivery Including Northern Ireland
Buying pet medication in Northern Ireland
Pet owners in Northern Ireland can order pet meds from Pet Med Direct in much the same way as customers elsewhere in the United Kingdom. The range covers everyday pet care products and non-prescription veterinary medicines, alongside prescription-only medicines supplied against a valid veterinary prescription.
Ordering is straightforward. Browse the eligible products, add what you need to your basket and complete the order online. If an item you have chosen is a prescription-only veterinary medicine, you will be asked to provide the prescription written by your own veterinary surgeon — you can upload your prescription here. Once the order and any prescription have been checked, eligible products are prepared for dispatch.
Pet Med Direct does not diagnose or prescribe for your animal. Decisions about which pet medicine your pet needs, at what dose and for how long, are made by your veterinary surgeon. Our role is the responsible supply of what they have prescribed, together with general pet care products you can buy without a prescription. For the wider picture across the whole of the UK, see our guide to ordering pet medication online.
Who is behind the service
A Northern Ireland registered online retailer of veterinary medicines
Pet Med Direct is an online service provided by Farm Vet Services. Farm Vet Services is listed on the official Veterinary Medicines Directorate Register of Online Retailers, where it appears as a Northern Ireland retailer. The register is published by the VMD and anyone can search it free of charge.
Checking a supplier against that register is a sensible first step whenever you buy veterinary medicines online, wherever in the UK you live. It is the same check we would encourage any pet owner to make.
Prescription and non-prescription pet medicines
Not every pet medicine is supplied on the same terms. Some products can be ordered outright; others can only be supplied against a prescription written by the veterinary surgeon responsible for your animal.
Products supplied without a prescription
A number of pet care products and veterinary medicines can be supplied without a prescription. Where that applies to the item you have chosen, you can simply place the order and no prescription is required from you.
The classification is set for each individual product, not by where you live, so it works the same way for a customer in Northern Ireland as anywhere else in the UK. If you are unsure whether a product is suitable for your animal, speak to your veterinary surgeon before ordering.
Prescription-only veterinary medicines
Prescription-only veterinary medicines can only be supplied against a valid prescription from the veterinary surgeon who is responsible for your pet. The medicine supplied has to correspond with what that prescription says, including the product, strength and quantity.
We have kept the detail out of this page deliberately. For the full step-by-step NI prescription process, see our dedicated guide.
Delivery to Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland addresses are handled as part of our normal delivery arrangements, so pet medicine delivery in Northern Ireland is not a separate service you need to request. Certain medicines have their own storage and handling requirements, and those are taken into account when an order is packed.
Delivery options and charges are kept in one place rather than repeated across the site, because they can change. Please check the current detail before you order.
Dog and cat medication in Northern Ireland
Dogs and cats account for most of what we supply. Both have their own dedicated section, which is where to start if you already know roughly what you are looking for.
Dog medication
Everything we supply for dogs sits together in one place, including the products that need a prescription and the ones that do not. Dog medication in Northern Ireland is ordered through exactly the same section.
Cat medication
The cat section works the same way, and cat medication in Northern Ireland follows the same ordering route. Where a prescription is needed, you will be asked for it as part of the order.
Veterinary Oversight at Pet Med Direct
Pet Med Direct is run by registered veterinary surgeons. Both founding partners are on the RCVS register, and their registrations can be checked independently.
Patrick Finnegan, BVMS, MRCVS
Registered Veterinary Surgeon
- RCVS reference number: 7230753
- Registration category: UK Practising
- Registration date: 30 June 2017
Patrick Finnegan is a founding partner of Pet Med Direct and a registered veterinary surgeon. His work with Pet Med Direct contributes to prescription compliance, responsible medicine supply and the professional standards applied to veterinary medicine ordering.
Stephen Hazelton, BVMS, MRCVS
Registered Veterinary Surgeon
- RCVS reference number: 7183305
- Registration category: UK Practising
- Registration date: 1 July 2016
Stephen Hazelton is a founding partner of Pet Med Direct and a registered veterinary surgeon. At Pet Med Direct he contributes to clinical oversight, professional prescription review and responsible veterinary medicine supply.
Pet medication in Northern Ireland: common questions
Yes. The route is the same: browse the eligible products, place your order online, and supply a valid veterinary prescription for anything that is prescription-only. Pet Med Direct is an online service provided by Farm Vet Services, which is listed on the VMD Register of Online Retailers as a Northern Ireland retailer.
A prescription must always come from the veterinary surgeon responsible for your animal, and the medicine supplied has to correspond with it. Northern Ireland has its own specific detail, which is why it is covered separately in our dedicated NI pet prescriptions guide rather than summarised here.
Northern Ireland addresses are handled as part of our normal delivery arrangements. Current options and charges are listed on the postage information page, which is the page we keep up to date.
That depends on the individual product rather than on where you live. Some veterinary medicines and pet care products are supplied without a prescription; others are prescription-only and cannot be supplied without one. If you are unsure what your animal needs, ask your veterinary surgeon.
Whether any individual veterinary medicine can be supplied depends on its authorisation status, and that can change over time. If a particular product is not available, your veterinary surgeon is the right person to advise on a suitable alternative for your animal.
Search the Veterinary Medicines Directorate Register of Online Retailers. It is free to use and lists the retailers authorised to sell veterinary medicines online, including Farm Vet Services as a Northern Ireland retailer. The register itself is the check — it does not publish registration numbers for any entry.
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Start your Northern Ireland pet medication order
Browse the range, place your order, and send us the prescription if one is needed. Everything is handled by a veterinary-led service you can check on the public VMD register.