The Hub will be TOO SMALL to serve our Borough
- The Hemel Hub will be too small to serve the whole Borough of Dacorum
- Health bosses now admit it will only be a Neighbourhood Health Centre (NHC)
- The Hub will probably be the biggest type of NHC, a Core++.
- New NHS documents confirm that Core++ NHCs will serve 100,000 people
- Problem is … the population of Dacorum is ALREADY over 165,000
- A big rise is expected in the number of people over 65 and living with frailty
- So demand will grow – but the Market Square Hub will not have the flexibility and space to meet the demand.
- Councillors need to explain why they are using Dacorum residents’ council tax to help build a facility that will be inadequate for many of us on the day it opens
- This is the link to the new NHS guidance on NHCs –
- https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/neighbourhood-health-centres-design-and-performance-specification/
- Here are extracts from the NHS guidance relating to the various types of NHC:
- Guidance Extracts April 2026