Case against Hospital closure to go live
- Dacorum Health Action Group Chair Philip Aylett will be arguing the case against the closure of Hemel Hospital in a public evidence session on 10 March
- Government inspectors will be holding live-streamed public sessions on the Dacorum Local Plan in Forum on Hemel’s Marlowes
- The NHS Trust and Council aim to push through the downgrade to a ‘neighbourhood health centre’ Hub in the Market Square.
- DHAG are pointing out:
- There is no substantial evidence in favour of the planned downgrade
- A thorough expert analysis in 2016-18 of options for hospital development dismissed the Market Square site and is still ‘directly relevant’ to the present situation
- Any extra parking for the Hub will damage the setting of the lovely listed Water Gardens