She explained how the three hospital model being proposed broadly retains the existing services.
“A substantial new build at Watford would bring fantastic opportunities to improve services. In our new facilities we are hoping to have significantly more single bed impatient rooms. We are looking at 75 to 80 per cent of all in-patient accommodation in single rooms.
“St Albans will be our main surgical and cancer care site. It already is the site where we do a lot of planned surgery and we want to develop and enhance that service offer at St Albans. One of the key things we want to do at St Albans is improve and increase the amount of diagnostics provision there to support planned care pathways and a much better coordinated model.
By Deborah Price Local Democracy Reporter - Hertfordshire
What a redeveloped Watford General Hospital could look like. Credit: West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust Plans for the rebuilding of Watford General Hospital and redevelopment of two other hospitals on existing sites have been backed by a county council watchdog group. At a meeting of the West Hertfordshire Hospital Trust health infrastructure plan topic group on Monday, the group discussed the trust s preferred option to spend the majority of government funding on refurbishing Watford General Hospital. The topic group, working on behalf of Hertfordshire health scrutiny committee, agreed with the broad proposal and rationale for the rebuild of Watford General Hospital and the redevelopment of St Albans City and Hemel Hempstead Hospitals on the existing sites .
We have all suffered in one way or another during this awful pandemic since March 2020 and whenever we have been asked to conform, in many instances not to our liking, most of us have dealt with these instructions just to keep ourselves okay. This is my recent experience with the NHS which I would like to share, especially as I am no longer in the flush of youth (born 1935) to illustrate that official guidance has been helpful to me and to show that life is not all doom and gloom. On January 5, 2021 I decided to take my Xmas decorations down but unfortunately my legs and feet became entangled with my steps and I crashed down extremely heavily backwards onto a marble fireplace hearth slab, fortunately not loosing consciousness, but a really bad fall.