many service visits were required to ensure the safe operation of the building’s air conditioning units, water pressure vessels, air handling units etc.

Aitchison Raffety has taken away the headache of sourcing reputable plant maintenance contractors, tendering the annual contracts and providing a day to day repair and maintenance service for the centre which leaves the practice manager free to concentrate on the core business of the surgery in providing the medical services and administration required in providing such to patients.

Aitchison Raffety’s team of professional RICS accredited managing agents has considerable experience in managing buildings throughout the country including those being used to provide healthcare services to the general public.

For further information contact our property management team: tel: 01908 608002 or email: Irene.dymond@argroup.co.uk

Is your practice keeping up to date with statutory property legislation? Both tenants and property owners are now faced with a plethora of regulations to which they must legally adhere, from asbestos control registers, fire risk assessments, fixed wire electrical tests, water tank chlorination tests, lift equipment testing to plant equipment and gas safety tests, lightning protection tests and much, much more. Then there is the maze of health & safety legislation. Just keeping up to date with all this can be a full time job in itself!

At one northern based medical centre where we now provide management services, the practice manager was struggling to understand the technical details of how