DHAG seek clarity over Hub urgent care hours
- There’s confusion and concern over possible cuts to urgent care hours in the proposed Market Square ‘health centre’ Hub.
- A Facebook post by David Taylor MP seemed to suggest urgent treatment in the centre would only be available six days a week
- This would be a major reduction in services
- Hemel Hospital urgent treatment centre (UTC) is currently open every day of the year between 8 am and 10 pm
- Mr Taylor’s post said the ‘Health Campus’ would be ‘A community hub open at least 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, bringing core health services like GPs, urgent care, and diagnostics together under one roof.’
- This wording sparked online uncertainty and concern that the closure of the Hospital would mean no Sunday UTC service
- In a bid to clear up the confusion, DHAG Chair Philip Aylett has asked West Herts Trust: Does the Strategic Outline Case for the Hemel Health Campus include an assumption that the urgent treatment centre on the Campus would be open on seven days a week? Does the SOC include scenarios which would see the UTC open on just six days a week?