With only a few months to go until opening, Catherine Riley, Gemma Ellis and Stuart Baron, have been for a walk around the new CDC in Huddersfield.

The CDC is due to open in January 2026 in the Emily Siddon Building, part of the University of Huddersfield’s National Health Innovation Campus (NHIC), in the centre of the town. The CDC will be the first on a UK university campus and give people in Huddersfield access to diagnostic tests out of hospital, closer to home. 

In the attachments you can see artist impressions of how the space will look from the inside.

Associate Director of Strategy, Catherine Riley, said: “It was great to go and see how our second CDC is shaping up, only a year after we opened the hugely successful CDC at Broad Street Plaza in Halifax.

“The space is really shaping up. We looked round the whole building, including floors to be occupied by the university.

We’ve designed the CDC in a way that friendly, comforting and welcoming for our patients, which we know is important. Being in the centre of Huddersfield gives greater choice to our patients and means that some people do not have to come into hospital at all.

“Once open, it will be a huge step forward in being able to run most of our planned diagnostic tests and activity that would normally be done in hospital, out in the community.”

The first phase of the new CDC opened in July 2025 in the Daphne Steele building, which is already offering cardiorespiratory tests, ultrasound scans and drop-in phlebotomy clinics. This means that patients referred to CHFT for these tests may be offered an appointment in the community rather than in hospital.

Other floors of the building, will contain specialist clinical teaching facilities which will also be delivered in partnership with the Trust, including new course areas relating to the work of the CDC, such as Diagnostic Radiography. Work with other partners will allow for further developments, including Dental Hygiene and Dental Therapy BSc which will begin September 2025.