Will Community health services be shrunk to fit the Hub?

12 April 2026

There is uncertainty over the future of community health services in Hemel, with the fate of the Marlowes Health and Wellbeing (HWB) Centre in doubt
The Marlowes Centre is a substantial four-storey building
It offers a wide variety of community health services for adults and children
The plans for the Market Square Hub do have space for community services
But there is only ONE HUB FLOOR dedicated to those services in the plans.
Can the NHS really want to shrink everything in the HWB onto a single storey?
The recent PR for the Hub trumpeted the opportunity to bring together many sorts of services under one roof
But it looks as if the HWB might survive as a separate building, so patients will have to go to different places.
That shows, yet again, that the Hub is, simply,
MUCH TOO SMALL FOR OUR NEEDS
Below are: the HWB and – on Level Three, the only space being offered in the Hub for community health services.