A dental practice, GP surgery or private clinic is cleaned when the patients have gone, usually in the evening after the last appointment or before the first.
The clean covers the premises: reception and waiting areas, consulting and treatment rooms, corridors, staff rooms, kitchens and patient washrooms. Clinical work is not part of it. Instruments, treatment surfaces, equipment used on patients and decontamination rooms stay with your clinical team and your own infection-control arrangements, and clinical and sharps waste stays with your clinical waste contractor. What we provide is a dependable clean of everything around that work, done to the schedule the practice sets: which rooms, which surfaces, which colour-coded cloths and mops for each area, and which products are allowed. Waiting-room chairs, door handles, reception counters and washroom taps get the most attention, because they are touched all day. Spas follow the same pattern, with treatment rooms, changing rooms and relaxation areas cleaned around a longer week.
A practice needs the same reliable people every evening, properly managed and equipped. Below is how a Bayleaf contract compares with a typical cleaning firm on exactly that.
Other Providers
London's private practices are often in converted terraces and mansion blocks, from the Harley Street area to the high-street dental surgery and the GP practice above a parade of shops. Narrow stairs, shared entrances and alarm codes are normal, so access is agreed before the first clean. Everyone who cleans your premises is directly employed and goes through training on your schedule before a first shift, so whoever is in your treatment rooms tonight knows which cloth goes where.
A practice is judged by the room a patient sits in. So our audits score the premises room by room against the schedule you agreed, and show whether the cleaning matches what was promised.
Each audit follows your cleaning schedule on our app, from the waiting area to the last treatment room and washroom. The scored audit comes to you to check and sign.
If a washroom was missed or a consulting-room bin left full, the record shows who is putting it right and when it was done.
When the same room fails twice, we look at the routine and the training for that room and change it, so the problem does not come back next week.
1,000+
95%
92%
Practice cleaning is charged hourly. The hours depend on the number of consulting and treatment rooms, the size of the waiting area and washrooms, your opening days, and whether you need cleaning between sessions as well as at close.
Practice deep cleans from:
£34
per hour
Floors, vents and high-level dust
Booked when the practice is closed
Waiting room to staff kitchen
Evening practice cleaning from:
£20
per hour
After the last appointment
Equipment, products and uniforms supplied
Rooms scored against your schedule
Practice window cleaning from:
£21
per hour
Clear and frosted glass
Our own window cleaners
Booked outside surgery hours
Partnering with Bayleaf for our housekeeping services has made a notable difference.
Their attention to detail and commitment to excellence elevate our guest experience to new heights.
Site Manager
W Hotel
The BFM team understand our culture and values, which is what sets us and them apart.
Their experience and unrivalled service delivery has helped out people and business to deliver class-leading customer experience and helped our clients to achieve amazing things too. I highly recommend them.
CEO
Uncommon
Bayleaf FM support and invest in their cleaners ensuring they are all rewarded and acknowledged for their efforts.
They consistently deliver ensuring the highest standards are met at all times, with the added benefit of working with people that you can trust.
Director of Construction
Serpentine Galleries
BFM’s attention to detail and commitment to maintaining the highest cleaning standards within our flagship St James’s Street store truly sets them apart.
I highly recommend them to any premium retailer seeking a company that goes the extra mile.
F&B Manager
Holland & Holland
Practices tend to start with an evening clean of the whole premises, then add deep cleans and upholstery care as the rooms need them.
Every evening or early morning, the practice is cleaned to your schedule: reception desks and waiting-room chairs wiped, floors vacuumed and mopped, consulting rooms and corridors cleaned, the staff kitchen and patient washrooms done and restocked, and general waste and recycling taken out. Clinical surfaces and equipment stay with your team.
A deep clean reaches what the daily clean cannot: floor edges and corners, vinyl floors scrubbed, high-level dusting, air grilles, skirting, light fittings and the backs of waiting-room furniture. It is booked while the practice is closed, often across a weekend or on a bank holiday, and the rooms are left ready for the next session.
Waiting-room chairs and sofas are used by hundreds of patients a week, and stained fabric seating is one of the first things people notice. Our specialist team cleans fabric and vinyl upholstery in waiting rooms, consulting rooms and spa relaxation areas, out of hours so seats are dry before the first appointment. Treatment couches and clinical equipment are not included.
Sign up to our newsletter for the latest guides and insights:
Cleaning a dental practice, GP surgery or private clinic in London covers the premises around the clinical work: reception and waiting areas, consulting and treatment rooms, corridors, stairs, staff rooms, kitchens and patient washrooms. Cleaners wipe floors, furniture, touch points and fixtures to the schedule the practice sets, and take out general waste and recycling. Instruments, equipment used on patients and decontamination rooms stay with the practice's own clinical team. Deep cleans and waiting-room upholstery cleaning can be booked while the practice is closed.
Yes. Spa cleaning covers treatment rooms, changing rooms, showers, relaxation areas and reception. It is arranged around a seven-day week and late opening, so rooms are cleaned when guests have gone, or between sessions where the spa asks for it. Floors and washrooms follow the spa's own schedule and standards. Pool water treatment and servicing spa equipment sit outside the service. The same premises cleaning is available for dental practices, GP surgeries and private clinics across London.
Still need help? Email info@bayleaffm.com
No. Bayleaf cleans the premises of private practices, clinics and spas. We do not offer clinical, surgical or infection-control cleaning, and we do not clean clinical areas or equipment. Each practice keeps its own infection-control lead and policies. Our cleaners work to the cleaning schedule the practice sets for each room, including which colour-coded cloths and mops go where, and to the products the practice has approved. We clean waiting rooms, consulting and treatment rooms and washrooms to the practice's own standards.
Cleaners use the products the practice approves. Before work starts, products are agreed with the practice for each surface and room. Scan the code on the cleaning cupboard door and the premises' risk assessments, COSHH sheets and training records come up, held in Bayleaf Compliance. The practice does not buy cleaning supplies separately, because the hourly price already includes them. Cloths and mops follow the colour coding the practice sets for each room.
Still need help? Email info@bayleaffm.com
A dental practice, GP surgery or private clinic is usually cleaned after the last appointment or before the first, so no patient sees the cleaning and the morning list starts in a clean building. For practices open late or at weekends, the cleaning fits around the extended hours, and out-of-hours cleans of any kind are available. Deep cleans are booked for when the practice is closed, typically a weekend or bank holiday. Access is agreed before the first clean, because narrow stairs, shared entrances and alarm codes are common in converted terraces and mansion blocks.
Clinical and sharps waste stays with the practice's own clinical waste contractor. Our cleaners do not handle clinical waste bags, sharps bins or anything the practice's policy treats as clinical waste. They take out general waste and recycling and leave it at the practice's collection point, as a normal part of the evening clean. Where general waste collection is arranged through Bayleaf, our partner handles it, and our cleaners do not collect or process waste themselves.
Still need help? Email info@bayleaffm.com
Reviewed by Jorge Hernandez, Operations Director, Bayleaf Facilities Management.
First published 18 March 2025 · Last updated 15 October 2026
Bayleaf FM has cleaned London commercial property since 2001. ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 certified under Citation certificate 460282024, valid to 13 August 2028.