HEMEL HOSPITAL SERVICES FACE UNCERTAIN FUTURE – HERE IS THE CHECKLIST
- Dacorum Council and NHS plans to close Hemel Hempstead Hospital and replace it with a Health Hub in the former Market Square mean the hospital services available to Dacorum people face an uncertain future.
- During the Election, Hemel MP David Taylor pledged to push for a Community Hospital for the town.
- As a checklist of what has been happening to our local NHS, and a baseline for might happen in future, here is the tally of services the NHS claimed to be providing at Hemel Hospital just three years ago, in September 2021.
- Some, like the Fracture Clinic, have already been moved elsewhere. Surgery and maternity seem to have disappeared too
- SERVICES LISTED BY NHS AS AVAILABLE AT HEMEL HEMPSTEAD HOSPITAL IN SEPTEMBER 2021:
- Urgent treatment centre,
- Cardiology,
- dermatology,
- diabetes,
- gastroenterology,
- general medicine,
- haematology,
- neurology,
- neurophysiology,
- older peoples services,
- rheumatology,
- respiratory medicine,
- stroke,
- audiology,
- clinical oncology,
- general, colorectal and vascular surgery,
- urology,
- ear, nose and throat,
- fracture clinic,
- children’s services,
- gynaecology,
- obstetrics and maternity
How many of these services will be locally available in Dacorum after the move to the Market Square?