Hub stalls as delay stretches to SEVEN months

2 April 2026
|In News, News Updates
|By philip
  • More frustration for some Dacorum councillors as the plan to close Hemel Hospital stalls
  • Case for replacement of our Hospital with a Market Square ‘health centre’ Hub must get go-ahead from regional NHS bosses
  • The bosses’ thumbs-up for the £135m closure scheme should have been given in NOVEMBER 2025
  • But scheme was not on the agenda for the Central East Care Board bosses’ meeting yesterday
  • The next meeting where it might be discussed is 27 JUNE 2026.
  • That will mean a slippage of SEVEN MONTHS
  • With money tight, wiser heads in the NHS might be wondering whether they should spend so much on one unpopular ‘health centre‘
  • This is the timetable the Council and NHS were hoping for in September last year – with Hospital closure strategic outline case ‘submitted’ before the end of 2025. The case has not been submitted yet.