Dacorum’s Disappearing Documents – Council loses ANOTHER key report
- Why does Dacorum Council keep on losing – or deleting – key documents about the future of our Hospital?
- It emerged some time ago that the Council no longer had a detailed 70-page expert technical report assessing possible Dacorum sites for a new hospital building
- This week, in answer to an FOI request, the Council admitted to no longer having a separate 57-page draft strategic outline case (SOC) document
- The Council was closely involved in the drafting of both documents and jointly paid for the 70-pager.
- The documents were from 2016-18 – but they are very relevant to today to the future of the Borough, not just the NHS
- That’s because the documents assessed the quality of sites for a local hospital very similar to the ‘Campus’ or Hub proposed for Market Square
- They both favoured a new building on the most accessible part of the current Hemel Hospital site
- The ‘SOC’ rated the Market Square site as JOINT WORST in the town as a site for a hospital
- BUT Dacorum councillors did not have this to hand when they backed a joint bid with the NHS for £135m to build the Hub on the Market Square
- The Council should perhaps check its record-keeping policies so it can avoid accidental deletion of such important documents in future
- Luckily some people are less careless with important information. Here is the document: