Six month delay for Hemel Health Campus plan
- Dacorum Council update on the proposed Market Square Hemel Health Campus or Hub reveals that a key document, due to be ready by May 2025, won’t be submitted until the end of the year
- The Strategic Outline Case is vital to progress but is held up in NHS bureaucracy
- There are no details yet of services to be provided in the Hub after the planned closure of Hemel Hospital
- Dacorum Health Action Group Chair Philip Aylett says: ‘The NHS needs to put up or shut up about the closure of Hemel Hospital and the plan to replace it with a Campus or Hub. After 15 months of speculation, we are none the wiser about the future of hospital services in Dacorum.
- ‘Recent revelations about the recent severe rundown of major services at Hemel Hospital make it vital that the NHS sets out its plans for the future urgently. At the present rate of service cuts for our local hospital, there will be nothing left to transfer to the Hub if and when it is finished.’
- This is the Health Campus team Dacorum release