Dr Wilcox's new room, roof and windows to be fitted

New consulting rooms being constructed in the former reception area

The new, wide corridor looking towards the rear of the building

New registrar room waiting to be plastered

New insulation

Former reception and waiting room, old front door is open

New registrar consulting room

New registrar's room on right, cleaner's cupboard and toilet

One of the new GP consulting rooms

New waiting room

Stripped out building, former front door on right of photo, looking towards the reception area

The Christmas break is over and the builders are back at work.  They are currently working on the new consulting rooms on the ground floor.  This has involved excavating new foundations, see previous posts, and building new sound proofed internal walls.  The wall that used to look out over the Christie Close side is also being removed once the steel work is in place.  Hopefully we can get the roof on before any bad weather.

Looking from the room Dr Wilcox used to use out to Christie Close. 

New floors in the original building

Top down view into new consulting rooms

We now have a fairly accurate finish date from the builders.  We hope to be finished by mid March.

Foundations

New foundations being dug inside the rear part of the surgery. This is the single storey part at the back, nearest the car park.  It is the original part of the building and dates back to 1971.  It is necessary to dig the foundations to support the new sound proof walls and solid floors.

Demolition

Phlebotomy and Dr Jones' rooms

Former disabled toilet

Dr Fox's old room

Looking down the old corridor towards the old fire exit

Old reception desk and heating system

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Phase 2

Our move last weekend went well.  We moved all appointments to the Windlesham branch surgery on Friday afternoon.  This allowed us to close the building.  Lightwater Removals moved the furniture for us, most of which has gone upstairs.  We spent Saturday moving the phone and computer servers to their new home.

We now have three consulting rooms on the ground floor.  These are mixed use at present but eventually will be used just by the practice nurses.  We are using two rooms on the first floor for consulting, this is just for the next 2 months.

The front ramp is in use and allows disabled access to the building for the first time in nearly 40 years!  We are waiting for a glass automatic door to be installed to complete the access improvements.  There is an identical ramp at the rear of the building to assist patients arriving by car.

There is still a lot of work to do, even in the part of the building we now occupy but we hope you get an idea of what it will look like.  Thank you for your patience so far!

Moving

We have now almost finished phase one of the re-development.  There are just floors to be laid and furniture to be fitted inside.  Outside you can see the canopy taking shape over the front door then the new tarmac surface needs to be laid.

We will move into the new part of the building on Friday 25th November.  On that afternoon the surgery will be closed from 12.30 onwards.  We will continue to offer some appointments and the duty doctor from the branch surgery at Windlesham.  Please phone the usual number.

Thank you for your understanding in the last few weeks.  We know the temporary entrance at the back of the property has been far from ideal.