During an assessment under our new approach
Date of Assessment: 17 and 18 June 2025. The University Health Centre is situated in a 2-storey, purpose-built medical centre in the vicinity of the Huddersfield University Campus at Sand Street, Huddersfield, HD1 3AL. Patient services are delivered from the first and second floor.
The practice is situated within NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) and delivers a Primary Medical Services (PMS) contract to a predominantly student population of approximately 14,600 patients. The practice is in the Tolson Primary Care Network (PCN) with 7 other practices.
The provider is registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to deliver the Regulated Activities: diagnostic and screening procedures; maternity and midwifery services; treatment of disease, disorder or injury; family planning and surgical procedures.
Information published by Office for Health Improvement and Disparities shows that deprivation within the practice population group is in the third decile (3 of 10). The lower the decile, the more deprived the practice population is relative to others. According to the latest available data, the ethnic make-up of the practice area is 63% White, 21% Asian, 7% Black, 5% Mixed and 4% Other. This assessment considered the demographics of the people using the service, the context the service was working within and how this impacted service delivery. Where relevant, further commentary is provided in the quality statements section of this report.
We carried out this announced, focused assessment to follow-up on areas that required improvement and were in breach of regulation at our previous inspection in December 2023. At that inspection we found there were gaps in systems and processes to ensure safe recruitment, premises, medicines management and the management of some patients with long-term conditions. This assessment reviewed all quality statements in the key questions of safe and effective and 2 priority quality statements in the responsive and well-led key questions.
Since the last inspection, the practice has made improvements and is no longer in breach of regulation. The practice has now been rated good for providing safe and effective services and is rated good overall.