NO ACTION ON PM’S PROMISE TO CONSULT ON HEMEL HOSPITAL CLOSURE – YET

24 June 2025
|In News, News Updates
|By philip
      • The NHS is holding two meetings about the planned closure of Hemel Hempstead Hospital and its likely partial replacement by a Health Campus or Hub in the town’s Market Square  
      • The meetings are in Berkhamsted on 10 July and Hemel Hempstead on 16 July
      • The invitation makes no mention of the option of retaining a hospital in the town, which must be considered to follow Treasury rules
      • And it makes no mention of the public consultation promised by the Prime Minister to Hemel MP David Taylor in the House of Commons on 4 June
      • The full invitation from the NHS Integrated Care Board is below:

      • Hemel Health Campus Workshops

        Thursday 10 July 7 – 9pm at Berkhamsted Town Hall

        Wednesday 16 July, 2-4pm at South Hill Centre, Hemel Hempstead

        We’re exploring the opportunity of building a new health campus in Hemel Hempstead and would like to hear from patients, carers, local residents and community groups.

        We would like to invite you to a workshop to share more information about the health campus, and to listen to your views and thoughts on what matters most to you.

        The health campus would bring together a range of local hospital, community, primary care and voluntary sector services. It would provide urgent and routine treatment and diagnostics as well as outpatient appointments, and care and support services to help patients who are living with frailty or long-term health conditions. 

        West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board and Dacorum Borough Council are engaging with local people to look at what a health campus could offer.  Your insight and experience of using local services are invaluable to this. These initial workshops are intended to raise awareness of the campus and seek a wide range of views on what people want to see from the proposed campus.

        Please email heather.aylward@nhs.net if you would like to attend one of the workshops.   Let us know which one and we will then send more information when we confirm attendance.