First birthday for PM’s broken Hospital closure pledge
- This week it will be a year since the Prime Minister promised there would be ‘public consultation’ on the Hemel Health Campus or Hub.
- The Hub would replace the town’s Hospital, which would close
- On 4 June 2025 Sir Keir explicitly told Hemel MP David Taylor in the Commons that ‘The proposals for the health campus will be open to public consultation.’
- The authorities have failed to deliver on this clear promise
- There has been NO public consultation
- There were some public ‘engagement’ sessions last year
- But the public were not told of the full list of possible Hub locations in the ‘engagement’ process
- Proper Government consultations have to follow a set of published principles.
- One key principle is that public bodies should ‘Give enough information to ensure that those consulted understand the
issues and can give informed responses.’ - The Dacorum Borough Council webpage on the Hub was last updated NEARLY SIX MONTHS AGO, on 18 December 2025.
- The Government’s Consultation Principles are below:
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