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Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

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Important: Services have been transferred to this provider from another provider

Assessment report published 18 June 2026

Contents

Ratings - Well-led

  • Well-led Our assessments of NHS trusts now focus on leadership. We no longer rate trusts overall for their safety, effectiveness and responsiveness or how caring they are. We do still publish those ratings for the services they provide.

    Good

Our view of the service

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust provide a range of acute and community-based services, including emergency care and emergency surgery; elective surgery in many specialties; maternity and cancer services. The trust employs over 7000 staff and provides services across both Calderdale and Greater Huddersfield.

The community health services include community nursing, occupational and physiotherapy, community dental services, speech and language therapy and palliative care.

Inpatient services are provided from Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and Calderdale Royal Hospital which have over 780 beds. The trust also provides community services in the Calderdale area with more than 369,000 adult services contacts by community teams in the previous year and more than 230,000 contacts with the trust therapy teams in the same period.

The trust saw over 103,000 inpatient admissions over the previous year. There were also over 490,000 outpatient attendances in the same period. There were almost 185,000 accident and emergency attendances and 4,200 babies delivered in the same period.

We carried out an unannounced assessments of Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust on 12 January – 5 March 2026. We carried out this assessment in response to information of concern. As well as the trust-level assessment, we assessed the following service groups:

  • Community health services for adults
  • Community health services for children, young people and families
  • Medical care (including older people’s care)
  • Outpatients
  • Urgent and emergency care

Overall, the trust was rated as good for the well led key question.

We undertook a trust-level assessment (well-led review) of the trust which included an on-site visit on 2 – 5 March 2026. Prior to the assessment we observed the trust’s board and quality committee meetings on 15 January and 3 February 2026. We also asked the trust’s partners for feedback.

We assessed all eight of the quality statements in the well-led key question used when assessing an NHS trust in the Single Assessment Framework. The trust-level assessment followed several assessments of the trust’s assessment service groups (frontline services) in January and February 2026. We undertook these assessments to ensure we had a thorough understanding of the full range of services provided by the trust ahead of our trust-level assessment.

We found positive findings within all eight quality statements. We identified areas which did not breach regulation but were areas for improvement within learning and innovation.

The assessment team included a CQC deputy director, operations manager, senior specialist, inspector, regulatory co-ordinator, regulatory officer, an executive reviewer and specialist professional advisors with experience of working in the assessment service groups we assessed, or with experience as senior leaders in the NHS.

We assessed quality statements within the well led key question. Each quality statement assessed is awarded a score. Details on how we score can be found on our website: https://www.cqc.org.uk/about-us/how-we-do-our-job/ratings

You can find further information about we carried out our assessments at: https://www.cqc.org.uk/about-us/how-we-do-our-job/what-we-do-inspection

People's experience of this service

The CQC Adult Inpatient Survey 2024 results for Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust were about the same as comparable acute trusts with score of 8.2/10 for overall experience. The CQC Maternity Survey 2025 results and Children and Young People’s Survey 2024 for Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust were also about the same as comparable acute trusts. The trust scored 8.5/10 for overall experience reported by children and young people using the trust’s services, and 8.2/10 for overall experience for parents and carers.

Local surveys showed consistently high levels of satisfaction with the trust’s services for both inpatient and community services, particularly in cancer patient care and radiology services.

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