A special “removals relay race” took to the road to move a Telford doctors’ surgery in time for its opening today (Monday, January 7th).
Glyn Upton Removals of Telford, was called in to despatch five of its largest removals trucks from its fleet to move Dawley doctors’ surgery from its old premises in Doseley Road to its brand new £1 million purpose built surgery in nearby King Street.
Minimum disruption was essential to ensure that the surgery was up and running this morning (mon) while maintaining a Saturday surgery cover for patients in need.
“We’ve never done it before but we thought it would be speedier if we sent in five removals vans to perform a relay service between the two surgeries,” said Ian Ball, of Glyn Upton Removals, of Cluddley, Telford.
“We staggered the vans so that when one was fully loaded, the next one was ready for loading and at the same time equipment was being unloaded at the other end. It was a planned precision move which went according to clockwork and saved time to ensure they were up and running Monday morning.”
The move began at 8.30am on Saturday when a total of 300 crates containing files for 10,750 patients were transported along with four doctors’ couches, desks, lockers, nine carousels packed with patients files, drugs and filing cabinets.
Surgery office manager Sandra Taylor said a doctor and receptionist were on duty at the old surgery for emergencies while the move went ahead on Saturday.
Doctor Paul Spencer said they called in Glyn Upton Removals because it was so important to get computers up and running and medical records in place ready for the new surgery opening.
