I changed surgeries partly because of this.
The surgery I was at was purpose built, with corridors wide enough for two prams or wheelchairs to pass each other with room to spare for someone to walk between them, the doors were all double doors and mostly automatic, the surgery rooms were big and there was plenty of space.
And yet they still said prams were a fire hazard and insisted you leave them in reception. They didn't have any signs to tell you this though, so the first time I found out was when I was already there with LO in his pram.
We were both due a check-up, DH was away, I didn't have any friends or family nearby to ask to come with me and I didn't know I wouldn't be allowed to take LO in to see the doctor in his pram.
I was really ill and struggling to carry LO about in the house, I was using his moses basket like a mini-pram because it had two bases (one rocked and one had wheels) and the corridor we had to walk down was very long.
The staff were not allowed to carry LO for me because of health and safety so I limped down the corridor holding him.
When we saw the doctor there was nowhere to put LO down. He was three weeks old. The staff couldn't hold him for me so I had to have my examination while holding him. Doctor said that my blood pressure was up and I seemed to be having trouble breathing. I pointed out it was due to having to carry LO so far when I was so ill and struggle to hold him while they took my blood pressure.
And I left in a worse state, they had to do a procedure on my arm, still balancing LO in my other arm, and leave with it bandaged up and covered in bruises.
LO was crying following his examination and the corridor had definitely grown twice in length since we'd arrived.
It was a nightmare and we never found a solution to it. Even carrying LO down the corridor in his car seat was hard work, but at least it meant there was somewhere to put him while the doctor treated me. It was annoying though because we lived a two minute walk away but from then on we always had to go in the car.
When I was injured a few months later I had to drive 45 minutes to my parents house, leave LO, drive 45 minutes back to have my appointment, then drive back to my parents to collect LO and then back home again. So a ten minute appointment twice a week meant that I had a three hour round trip to get childcare because I just couldn't carry LO through the surgery and had nowhere to put him safely down during the appointment.
The new surgery is of a similar design and build and the doctors actively encourage prams and pushchairs to be brought right into the consulting rooms. It's much better.