The Emily Siddon Building, the second facility on the National Health Innovation Campus, has opened after being handed over to the University.

The multi-purpose building contains specialist clinical teaching facilities, an NHS Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) and a Health Business Innovation Centre. First through the doors were students from the University’s Diagnostic Radiography and Dental Hygiene and Dental Therapy courses.

With state-of-the-art simulation technology and access to the CDC, students will benefit from learning in a realistic environment, preparing them for their future careers. The simulation MRI scanner that students will use on the first floor is the first of its kind in the UK.

Over 50 visitors attended a preview tour of the new building, including the CDC.

Operated by Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT), the new CDC will start welcoming patients in early February, offering a wide range of diagnostic testing, such as X-Rays, CT and MRI scans, out of hospital in a convenient location.

The partnership between the University and CHFT is one of the first CDCs on a university campus in the UK.

It is the local area’s second CDC, following on from the opening of the highly successful CDC in Halifax in the summer of 2024, which welcomes more than 2,000 patients every week.

The 6,800m² facility, designed by architects AHR and built by Kier, is adjacent to the Daphne Steele Building on Southgate, which opened in the autumn of 2024. It is named after Emily Siddon, the healthcare advocate who spent most of her life in nearby Honley, and who strove to improve healthcare and equality for the local population in several prestigious roles that had previously been reserved for men in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.