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Built in the 1970s and extended twice, Barton Surgery had reached a point familiar to many established GP practices. The surgery’s layout had been shaped by decades of patchwork additions rather than by how staff and patients move through the building. With around 6,000 patients on its books as part of the Coastal Medical Partnership, and a ‘Good’ rating from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the practice needed an extra consulting room and better administrative space, but with no scope to close its doors.
That is why Barton Surgery brought in a contractor experienced in live healthcare environments rather than a general builder. Rocare reworked existing administrative rooms into a new consulting room, a private office and a six-desk admin area, alongside a compliant accessible ramp and drainage relocation, completed within a 4-week programme.
Reconfiguring administrative space into a working consulting room meant connecting the new room directly to the waiting area, so it matched the patient flow already in place. Rocare’s project management team phased the internal works around the practice’s existing layout, splitting the remaining space into a dedicated staff area and reworking the exterior access points to bring the building up to current standards.
The scope covered:
Each finished room carries the signage, chaperone notices and treatment-ready fixtures expected of a working practice, handed over ready for patients rather than simply decorated.
Our interior fit-out specialists handled the joinery and space planning needed to fit six workstations into the admin room without it feeling cramped, while the programme, internal reconfiguration, ramp installation and drainage works ran to a 4-week schedule.
GP surgeries do not have the luxury of closing for a refurbishment. Rocare planned the sequencing of works around a live practice environment, structuring the programme so administrative and clinical functions could continue with minimal interruption to staff and patients. Specifying the right contractor for a commercial refurbishment is about more than the finish; it is about a team that understands a surgery cannot simply pause.
That discipline extended to every part of the job, from coordinating the new ramp and fire exit route to keep access compliant throughout, to keeping the relocated manhole work contained and tidy on a tight urban site. Four weeks is not a long programme for the scope involved, and sticking to it required the same project management rigour that Rocare applies to its work in banking, education and other live commercial environments.
Barton Surgery was working around a building that had outgrown its original layout, with no spare consulting room and administrative staff squeezed into space never designed for the job. It now has a purpose-built consulting room, a properly resourced six-desk admin area and compliant, accessible circulation through the new ramp and fire exit route. Rocare’s project management and interior fit-out expertise turned that brief into a finished, patient-ready practice inside of 4-weeks.
Rocare is an approved contractor for NHS Trusts and local health authorities, with experience refurbishing clinical and administrative space inside live healthcare environments across the South of England. From project management through to interior fit-out, our team is used to working around practices that cannot pause for the build, and we do our utmost to minimise disruption to staff and patients throughout.
Call 01425 482000 or arrange a consultation today if you are planning a refurbishment for a GP surgery, clinic or healthcare site.
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