About us

We employ more than 7,000 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have more than 200 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services. Our Community Diagnostic Centre at Broad Street Plaza in Halifax offers planned diagnostic tests away from a hospital setting, in a town centre location.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre, and Broad Street Plaza and Bowling Mill, Dean Clough Mills - both in Halifax. 

In 2024/25 we cared for more than 103,000 men, women and children as inpatients (who stayed at least one night) or day cases. There were also more than 490,000 outpatient attendances; almost 185,000 accident and emergency attendances and more than 4,200 babies delivered.

There were more than 369,000 adult services contacts by our community teams as well as 230,000 contacts with our therapy services.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.