Trust misleads public and councillors on future of Hemel endoscopy service
- West Herts Trust suggests Hemel’s much-appreciated endoscopy service can only be provided in the Market Square Hub
- The service is currently provided in a modern environment in Hemel Hospital’s 1990s Verulam Wing
- A misleading slide used in the ‘engagement’ sessions and Council meetings claims that the ‘Health Campus’ was needed to continue a full endoscopy service for Dacorum
- The slide lists among the things ‘Option 4 provides above all other options’ – ‘Maintaining provision of full Endoscopy service in Dacorum, no need to travel to access Endoscopy Services at other sites.’
- The Trust suggests it will have to move the service to St Albans if the Hub is not agreed
- This is nonsense, playing on people’s fears
- Endoscopy could easily continue to be provided in the Verulam Wing
- In fact the Trust has just signed a £2.5m contract for refurbishing the service in that Wing
- SO THERE IS NOTHING TO STOP THE TRUST KEEPING ENDOSCOPY AT HEMEL – EXCEPT ITS DESIRE TO CLOSE OUR HOSPITAL FOR GOOD