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Summertown Medical Centre

Refurbishment of a working GP surgery in Oxford

Full refurbishment of a working GP surgery, phased across nine consulting rooms without closing the practice.

Refurbishment services
Completed brickwork and glazing on a finished building

Project facts

Client
NHS primary care partnership
Location
Summertown, Oxford
Contract type
Traditional, JCT Minor Works
Contract value
£980,000
Consulting rooms
9
Programme
22 weeks
Completed
April 2025

01 — The brief

Refurbish it without closing it

Nine consulting rooms, a treatment room and the whole reception needed stripping back and rebuilding, in a practice that could not stop seeing patients for a single day.

Closing the surgery would have moved eleven thousand registered patients to practices already at capacity. The programme had to absorb that constraint rather than ask the client to.

02 — Delivery

Two rooms at a time, behind a sealed wall

Work was phased in pairs of consulting rooms, each pair sealed behind a temporary partition with its own negative-pressure extract and its own entrance from the rear car park.

Noisy work was booked into the practice’s protected learning afternoons, agreed a month ahead against the clinical rota. Dust monitoring ran continuously on the patient side of every partition.

  • Nine rooms rebuilt in five phases
  • Negative-pressure dust containment
  • Separate contractor entrance
  • Noisy work booked to the clinical rota
  • Continuous dust monitoring
  • No clinical sessions cancelled

03 — The outcome

Not one cancelled session

FF Construction completed the £980,000 refurbishment of Summertown Medical Centre in April 2025, across 22 weeks, without the practice cancelling a single clinical session.

All nine consulting rooms, the treatment room and reception were handed over in use. The practice has since commissioned us for its branch surgery.

Gallery

Building around a full waiting room

  • Completed brickwork and glazing on a finished building
    Temporary partitions sealed each pair of rooms from the practice.
  • A steel frame going up on a new build site
    The rear car park entrance kept site traffic away from patients.
  • Scaffolding and blockwork on a commercial site
    A completed consulting room, handed back in use.

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