Possible options for Dacorum’s hospital services?
- The NHS must put forward to the Government soon a range of options for future hospital services in Dacorum
- One option is the move of services from the current Hemel Hospital site to the Hemel Market Square, now described by the NHS as a community hospital
- BUT there must be more options, otherwise the Government will not pay for it
- These options should be made public soon
- None of them would see the restoration of Hemel as an acute hospital, but they would establish a range of much-needed planned local hospital services
- One option could be the refurbishment of the Verulam Building on the current Hospital site, given planning approval in 2022. See the illustration in this post
- Other options were developed by the NHS in 2018. These would involve quite extensive works on the current site, or leaving it as it is. They would not see the return of A&E, and could be quite expensive. The budget may not stretch. Click below for the 2018 shortlist of options for Hemel Hospital development:
- 2018 options