Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust | |
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Type | NHS hospital trust |
Hospitals | Huddersfield Royal Infirmary Calderdale Royal Hospital |
Chair | Philip Lewer |
Chief executive | Owen Williams |
Website | www |
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]