Great Bedwyn Surgery have recently transformed their old record store room (formerly “the privy”) into a fantastic light and airy office space, with the help of grants from both Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group and the Friends of Savernake Hospital.
Great Bedwyn Surgery New Office and Consultation Space
Great Bedwyn Surgery had almost outgrown its existing premises (a converted Victorian schoolhouse). To improve the Doctor/Patient experience, a decision was made in early 2018 to digitise old paper records of all patients, and securely store these notes at an accredited central store. The entire paper record for each patient now sits within the electronic record of all registered patients, and is easily retrievable by the GP in a consultation.
The old store room (formerly the privy) at Great Bedwyn Surgery
Having been able to store records remotely, the surgery was then able to think about converting the somewhat dark and cramped store room (formerly “the privy”) into useable office workspace, and an additional consulting room, for external visitors such as counsellors/stop smoking advisor/GP training etc.
Total costs of the conversion were just over £5600: – 2/3 of the costs were met by the CCG, and the other 1/3 (just over £1,870) was provided in the form of a grant from the Friends of Savernake Hospital and the Community.
Keith Marshall, Practice Manager, said “The Practice is very grateful for the help and assistance provided by Wiltshire CCG and the Friends of Savernake Hospital and the Community. This new workspace, will enable the Practice to extend its training capacity for new GPs, and help to accommodate the ever-increasing number of attached professionals to Practices that is/will be occurring over the next few years under the NHS Forward Plan.”
Janet Louth, Chairman of the Friends, commented, “This is an extremely innovative and effective transformation of an old record store room into much-needed office and consultation space at the surgery.”
