ABSTRACT
When planning a new surgery development it is very easy to get carried away with the excitement of planning the appearance and practicalities of the building itself while possibly overlooking the fact that this development will form one of the greatest investments that GPs will undertake in their lifetimes. It is important to remember that although the principal purpose of a new surgery development is to provide a modem surgery with all the facilities for the provision of full primary care to the patients, it is nevertheless a major investment for the doctors. The valuation of surgery premises has been the subject of considerable concern and debate over recent years and most GPs accept that it is very rash to go ahead with building a surgery or extending and reconstructing an existing one where the cost exceeds the ultimate value. It is obviously advantageous to GPs to reduce the cost to themselves of any surgery development as much as possible.
