MPs must demand answers on Hemel Hospital cuts
- Why is Hemel Hospital the poor relation in the local NHS?
- New figures show that Hemel Hospital has nearly 100 fewer outpatient appointments per day than St Albans Hospital
- And nursing staff numbers at Hemel are to be cut back in a £271,000 switch to St Albans
- Dacorum MPs are being urged to demand answers on this latest twist in the decline of Hemel Hospital under West Herts Trust
- DHAG Chair Philip Aylett has written to MPs Victoria Collins, Gagan Mohindra and David Taylor
- Dr Aylett urges the MPs to press the NHS on why Hemel Hospital has only 125 outpatient appointments a day
- St Albans Hospital has 224 a day on average, and Watford General has between 160 and 170
- Dr Aylett’s letter says that, for Dacorum people, ‘This is pushing care further away from home – exactly the opposite of what should be happening.’
- The letter to MPs is here:
- Letter to MPs 23 May