What will happen to Hemel’s final hospital beds?
- Will Hemel keep its rehabilitation beds?
- Hemel Hospital currently has just one inpatient ward left – the 20-bed St Peter’s Ward rehabilitation unit
- It is for people who are ready to leave hospital care. Patients have therapy ‘to help them become as independent as possible.’
- It can also be used as ‘part of a rapid care response to avoid people being admitted to hospital.’
- The NHS aims to demolish Hemel Hospital and replace it with a ‘neighbourhood health centre’ in Market Square
- The Market Square site appears to be too small to accommodate any beds
- A review of the beds was due to report in February
- There has been no public announcement of the review’s outcome.
- DHAG has asked the West Herts Trust for information on the fate of the 20 beds