Ask The Experts - Surgery Improvements

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Thank you for the question, ultimately you need to ensure that the Surveyor/Architect project managing you extension/refurb has knowledge to healthcare premises. I have liaised with my own company's building surveyors who undertake this sort of work, details are all on the NHS web site and they have advised me of the following direct links to the relevant section of Primary and Social Care Premises - Planning and Design Guidance, Minor Surgery is at the end;

Minor Surgery

alternatively Treatment Room may be more relevant;

Treatment Room

and the detail for the basin for all clinical areas is;

Clinical Washbasin