Action Group demands the facts on Hemel Hospital demolition plan
- Dacorum Health Action Group (DHAG) members are calling on the NHS and Dacorum Council to come clean about their plan to demolish Hemel Hospital and move services to a Hub on the town’s Market Square
- In a series of Freedom of Information bids, DHAG is demanding to know:
- 1. WHY the Market Square site was rated Hemel’s WORST place to locate hospital services the last time the NHS looked at the options;
- 2. HOW the NHS now justifies giving the Market Square the TOP rating for a hospital site, and
- 3. WHAT negotiations – if any – have taken place with profit-seeking private developers about the future of the Market Square. The Council have admitted that the Hub might end up having to share the Market Square with ‘new housing, retail and café uses’.
- DHAG will take the Council and the NHS to the Information Commissioner if they block public access to this key information