Council and NHS bosses will mark Hospital’s 200th – by working to close it
- A big birthday is coming up for Hemel Hospital.
- In September it will be exactly 200 years since the first doctors for a Hemel hospital were appointed
- And in January 1827 the first patients were admitted to what was then called the West Herts Infirmary, in Piccotts End.
- How are Dacorum Council and NHS bosses celebrating?
- They are working to end a tradition of inpatient beds in our town and closing the Hospital.
- They are aiming to replace the Hospital with a ‘neighbourhood health centre’ in the Market Square
- That’s one way for the authorities to make history