Another delay for Hospital closure plan
- Councillors and others backing the closure of Hemel Hospital face more disappointment this week
- The plan to replace the Hospital with a ‘neighbourhood health centre’ on Market Square is already four months behind schedule
- Regional NHS bosses must approve the plan to cram what’s left of the Hospital onto just three floors
- The downgrade SHOULD have been on the agenda for a key meeting in November 2025
- But there was no progress then
- The bosses are meeting again this Friday, but once again it’s not on the agenda
- That means further delay for the £135m closure plan
- The reasons for the continued hold-up are not known, but finance may be one problem
- The cost of the Hemel plan is at least THREE TIMES MORE than for any other ‘neighbourhood health centre’ planned in England
- Perhaps regional bosses have realised there are better things to spend their (our) scarce money on than just moving services across Marlowes?