Hospital and Medical Equipment Relocation

Real Results: Hospital Relocation Case Studies

Explore how we’ve expertly relocated hospitals and healthcare facilities, ensuring minimal disruption to patient care, from mental health trusts to large NHS hospitals.

The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust appointed us in March 2020 to relocate services across Pontefract Hospital, Pinderfields Hospital and Dewsbury and District Hospital. In 30 days, we moved more than 150 beds, clinical equipment, IT systems and the contents of 40 areas, including counselling suites, assessment units and ward areas. The moves covered the Eye Hospital, the Elective Orthopaedic Suite, the district nurses, the switchboard and the Stanley Hall Building.

We finished within the 30 days, under strict COVID-19 health and safety protocols, with no disruption to hospital operations or patient care. Stuart Philp, our Project Director, ran the planning and managed the teams on site. The Trust then gave us more than a dozen further moves for other parts of the organisation. Read the full Mid Yorkshire case study.

Our biggest problem was the failure of the new lifts here and the problems and delays this caused to the moves. However, working with the Move Manager and the removals team supervisors, we consequently changed some of the original plans and then not only caught up with our programme but moved ahead of it where we could.

That same month, our York branch moved delicate hospital equipment from Pinderfields Hospital to Dewsbury Hospital to open extra ward space for COVID-19 patients.

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Trust used us for a series of moves, from smaller moves to the main move of the whole Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital. The Trust’s move team told us we cleared the old site of furniture and other non-fixed items in five days, which astounded the demolition company.

“The Bishop’s teams were really professional, very helpful, and were tolerant of our particular needs with regards to the nature of our patients. The upfront preparation that the Move Manager worked with us to develop made the moves go that much more smoothly, and it is certainly a service that we would use again.”

Joyce Bradley, Deputy Move Manager / NHPT Support Manager, Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health NHS Trust

We’ve also moved teams into live hospital buildings. For Queen Mary University of London, part of a seven-phase programme took the Institute of Health Sciences into St Bartholomew’s Hospital. Read the Institute of Health Sciences relocation case study.

The accreditations procurement teams ask for

We’re founding members of the British Association of Removers, so we work to its code of conduct, with professionally trained staff and financial protection for customers. We’re also members of the BAR Commercial Moving Group, which only admits companies certified to BS 8522, the Commercial Moving Standard.

We hold ISO 9001 (quality), ISO 14001 (environmental management), ISO 45001 (health and safety) and ISO 27001 (information security) certification. We’re also a SafeContractor, a Constructionline Gold member and a RoSPA member. The full list is on our accreditations page.

Questions from hospital and NHS teams

Tell us what you’re moving and when

Let us know the site, your dates and what needs to move, and we’ll talk it through with you confidentially. Call our Business Removals team on 03300 585100. 

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