Sovereign Harbour Medical Centre

About this project

We completed a healthcare furniture project for The Construction Partnership at the new £1.6 million refurbishment at Sovereign Harbour Medical Centre, near Eastbourne.

Practice Manager, Nikki Cleary, said:

“Since we opened our doors in December, we’ve had countless compliments from our patients about the look and feel of the new health centre.”

Furniture installed

We manufactured the following healthcare furniture:

Floor standing medical storage units
Wall hung units
Variety of pastel colours
Worktops
Bespoke reception counter

Healthcare furniture at Sovereign Harbour Medical Centre

The new state-of-the-art Sovereign Harbour Medical Centre was privately-funded by practice GPs Dr Idango Adoki and Dr Ibelema Cookey who bought an area of land opposite the old doctors’ surgery from construction company Carillion.

Floor-standing and wall-hung medical storage units in a variety of pastel colours were specified for the GP treatment rooms, along with worktops from our Healthline HTM 63 furniture range. For the health centre’s reception area, we designed a bespoke reception counter with built-in storage units.

Practice Manager, Nikki Cleary, also commented:

Furniture supplied by David Bailey Furniture Systems has been installed in the majority of our GP treatment rooms, but their most significant contribution is our custom-made reception counter. It’s much larger than the size of our old reception desk, so we’re no longer tripping over each other trying to serve patients.”

Until the opening of the new medical centre, Sovereign Harbour Medical Centre was operating from a converted four-bedroom detached house for six-years, with limited resources. The new health centre has a fully equipped operating theatre and has consulting rooms for four doctors and additional rooms for complimentary practices. It is anticipated that the new medical centre will allow the doctors to increase the number of patients from 4,600 to around 8,000.

Healthcare furniture by David Bailey

The fitted healthcare furniture we supply is manufactured at our factory in Broadstairs, Kent. We provide specialist, HTM 63 and HTM 71 compliant furniture and storage units, specialising in the healthcare and hospital market. We have installed fitted healthcare furniture to many UK hospitals, health centres, clinics and GP surgeries, including Guys & St. Thomas Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and Northwick Park Hospital. Architects and Contractors rely on us because they know we are well established and professional and our durable furniture is manufactured in Britain with craftsmanship and professionalism. We also install our furniture into a facility, so there is no need to ensure a contractor has installation instructions.

Supporting the NHS through the Coronavirus pandemic

Our factory has been operational throughout the Coronavirus pandemic and we have been able to support the NHS by responding quickly to orders for furniture at several facilities, including Peterborough City Hospital, Hillingdon Hospital, Royal Preston Hospital and also furniture for mobile CT scanner units in Hull.