CAMPAIGNERS CALL ON POLITICIANS TO ACT ON DACORUM’S HEALTH PROBLEMS

Today the Dacorum Health Action Group (DHAG) calls on all elected local representatives to challenge the NHS to improve provision for the Borough’s population.

In its first Newsletter, DHAG points to a number of issues where NHS bodies are failing to provide good service  – or to plan adequately for the future.

We at DHAG believe that elected local and national representatives need to challenge unelected and unaccountable NHS bodies, such as the West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals Trust, to do much better for Hertfordshire’s most populous Borough.

Headlines from the Newsletter include:

• The future health needs of the growing and ageing Dacorum population need to be independently assessed before any decision is taken on the location of NHS services in the Borough;
• The costly, flawed  plans for redeveloping Watford Hospital are seriously threatened by the poor financial situation at the West Hertfordshire Trust. Better and cheaper alternatives on clear new sites must be explored urgently.

The link to the Newsletter is Newsletter 1