Revealed – experts backed new building on Hemel Hospital site
- Report by three top independent firms backed state-of-the-art new local hospital building on Hemel Hospital site
- Expert report written the last time Hemel’s hospital future was considered, between 2016 and 2018.
- At that time, Council and NHS rated Market Square site joint NINTH OUT OF TEN options
- Dacorum Council and NHS may have deleted or destroyed the expert report, which they helped to pay for – they claim they don’t have it
- BUT PARTS OF THE EXPERT REPORT HAVE NOW BEEN HANDED TO DACORUM HEALTH ACTION GROUP
- Report assesses the site for a local hospital with services very similar to the planned ‘Hemel Health Campus’
- Priorities would be prevention, integration and care closer to home
- Experts said the ‘optimum proposal’ for a new local hospital on the current site was on the northwestern edge, because it:
- Was ‘Close to the town centre’
- ‘Allows for sufficient parking and easy access from King Harry Street and Hillfield Road’
- Was ‘flexible to meet future demands and new services’
- ‘Optimises the value of the [current Hospital] land’
- The report assumed the rest of the current Hospital site would be used for housing to meet Government targets, and a school