Has Hemel Hospital closure plan stalled?
- Mystery surrounds the fate of the bid by Dacorum Council and the local NHS to close Hemel Hospital and replace it with a ‘neighbourhood health centre’
- The plan should have been approved by regional NHS bosses at a 28 November meeting of the Integrated Care Board
- That would pave the way for a bid to Whitehall for taxpayers’ funds for the switch – said to cost £135m
- But there was NOTHING ABOUT THE project on the agenda for the meeting
- There was no discussion of the Hub/closure plan in the public part of the meeting
- DHAG has had to put in a FOI request asking whether he subject came up.
- No answer yet
- It’s possible the authorities have been having second thoughts, with widespread public opposition to the closure.
- But it’s more likely that bosses have approved the bid in complete secrecy, in a private ‘Part 2’ session
- WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE SO AFRAID TO TELL US WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO OUR TOWN?