Next steps towards Hemel’s Community Hospital – a wide range of options
- Treasury rules explain the next stage on the journey to Hemel Community Hospital. This autumn will be crucial.
- A Strategic Outline Case (SOC) document, to be submitted soon, MUST:
- set out ‘investment or spending objectives’ – what the Community Hospital should aim to do
- describe ‘a wide range of realistic options to be appraised (the long-list), in terms of how well they meet the spending objectives and critical success factors for
the scheme; and then a reduced number of possible options (the short-list) to be examined in further detail.’ - assess how well each option meets the ‘critical success factors – the attributes essential for successful delivery of the project’
- The NHS and Dacorum Council have to agree on this SOC this autumn. It MUST include a range of options.
- They have NOT made it clear to the public that the Market Square ‘Campus’ option is only one among several possible options to achieve the objectives
- This must change very quickly