Hemel Hospital – reduced to less than three floors

18 March 2026
|In News, News Updates
|By philip
  • Services moved from the seven-hectare (18-acre) Hemel General Hospital site would be crammed onto less than three floors in the planned ‘neighbourhood health centre’ Hub in Market Square
  • We have seen only one floor plan for the ‘health centre’ – from 2023
  • It shows hospital services would have to share 8000 square metres with community health services, admin (service support), a building plant floor, shops  – and eateries
  • The plan talks of ‘WHTH’ and ‘ICB’ on Ground floor and levels 1 and 2. 
  • These would be the remnants of our 200-year-old hospital services.
  • The ground floor would see the town’s Urgent Treatment Centre rubbing shoulders with ‘Retail/F&B’ – meaning shops, food and beverage outlets
  • The Government plans to have neighbourhood health centres funded through ‘a mix of public-private partnership and public capital’.
  • Below is the floor plan for the ‘neighbourhood health centre’.