Dr Zubir Ahmed MP visits Emily Siddon Building to officially open Community Diagnostic Centre

Dr Zubir Ahmed MP has visited the recently-opened Emily Siddon Building on the University of Huddersfield’s National Health Innovation Campus (NHIC).

The Under-Secretary of State for Health Innovation and Safety toured the five-floor building and officially opened the Southgate Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) on the ground floor.

The CDC is operated in partnership with Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) and is the first CDC to be completed on a university campus in the country.

Dr Ahmed viewed the University’s equipment and simulation facilities for its Diagnostic Radiography degree, including the country’s first MRI scanner simulator, and for the Dental Therapy and Dental Hygiene degree.

He also visited the Health Business Innovation Centre (HBIC), where he met with emerging health innovators from the Huddersfield Health Innovation Incubator (HHII) and Propel West Yorkshire.

The MP for Glasgow South West also met with attendees at the ‘Navigating support for health innovators in West Yorkshire’ event, including Professor Liz Towns-Andrews (Regional and Business Lead, NHIC) and Richard Paxman OBE (CEO, Paxman Cooling Systems).

HBIC will become the home to local entrepreneurs, start-ups and small businesses working in health innovation to tackle health inequalities across West Yorkshire. Both HHII and Propel offer support programmes to early stage and scale-up organisations seeking to make an impact in health, wellbeing and life sciences.