Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
TypeNHS hospital trust
HospitalsHuddersfield Royal Infirmary
Calderdale Royal Hospital
ChairPhilip Lewer
Chief executiveOwen Williams
Websitewww.cht.nhs.uk Edit this at Wikidata

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust runs Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, Huddersfield and Calderdale Royal Hospital, Halifax, both in West Yorkshire, England. It became a Foundation Trust in 2006.

The rebuilding of Calderdale Royal Hospital by the Catalyst consortium which now services and maintains the hospital was a Private Finance Initiative costing £103 million.[1]

There were suggestions in 2014 that the A&E Department in Calderdale Royal Hospital could be closed or downgraded. This was opposed by MPs in Halifax.[2] Proposals envisaged one site, probably Huddersfield dealing with urgent cases, having an A&E Department, and more beds, with the other site, probably Halifax, dealing with planned work, and having fewer beds.[3] In 2016 new plans to close the A&E Department in Huddersfield and centralise in Halifax aroused considerable opposition in Huddersfield.[4] In 2017 more detailed plans were produced envisaging the demolition of Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and building a 64 bed planned care hospital nearby. These plans would be financed by private finance initiative funding.[5]

  1. ^ "SHOCK COST OF HOSPITAL". Halifax Courier. 2 August 2001. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  2. ^ "'Tragic mistake' to close one of our A&E departments as government minister talks of "co-locate acute services" plan". Hiuddersfield Examiner. 13 December 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  3. ^ "£150m and 100 fewer beds: real cost of Huddersfield and Halifax hospital shake-up options revealed". Huddersfield Examiner. 15 March 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
  4. ^ "Huddersfield hospital meeting sees 250 people shut out". BBC News. 18 April 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  5. ^ "Trust plans new PFI deal to fund controversial hospital shake up". Health Service Journal. 8 August 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2017.