Will Community services be shrunk to fit the Hub?

12 April 2026
|In News, News Updates
|By philip
  • There is uncertainty over the future of community health services in Hemel, with the fate of the Marlowes Health and Wellbeing (HWB) Centre in doubt
  • The HWB Centre is a substantial four-storey building
  • It offers a wide variety of community health services for adults and children
  • They range from audiology to a leg ulcer clinic, podiatry to dentistry
  • The idea is that the Market Square Hub will bring together many services
  • But Hub plans have only ONE FLOOR dedicated to community services
  • If the HWB is closed, that could mean a big reduction in space for those services
  • Can the NHS want to shrink everything in the HWB onto a single storey?
  • How many community services will fit onto the Hub’s single floor?
  • The evidence, yet again, is that the Hub is, simply,
  • MUCH TOO SMALL FOR OUR NEEDS 
  •  Below are: the current HWB and, below that, the current floor plan of the Hub, with on Level Three, the only space for community services.