Over the past months we have been looking at setting up a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary (WOS) here at CHFT.

A WOS is an arm's length company - owned by CHFT -  and staffed by our colleagues in estates, facilities and procurement. It will be called Calderdale and Huddersfield Solutions Ltd.

There are WOSs at many other Trusts elsewhere in the country and all our partners in our West Yorkshire partners are working towards their own.

The process has involved dialogue and engagement with CHFT colleagues and their representatives and we aim to continue to work together to have ours up and running by August 31st 2018.

As it is a very new departure, we have a new green button on the intranet home page which links to all the latest developments about the WOS and more information about them generally available for all colleagues.