Links
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Health services
Information on health and NHS services.
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust operates hospitals including Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and the Calderdale Royal Hospital, Halifax.
The NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board represents yet another reorganisation in the delivery of local NHS services. The most recent changes of the last few years have seen a Greater Huddersfield Clinical Commissioning Group amalgamate into a Kirklees Clinical Commissioning Group and now the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board set up under the Government's Health and Care Act 2022. This covers the 2.4 million people living in all five metropolitan districts of the county of West Yorkshire as well as those in the soon-to-be-abolished Craven district of North Yorkshire.
A partnership bringing together the local NHS, other health and care providers, Kirklees Council, Healthwatch, and community and voluntary sector organisations, to arrange and deliver services for 440,000 people living in Kirklees.
Information on the ambulance service, including how to pick the right NHS service when you are feeling unwell.
Public services
Operates all metropolitan district authority functions in and around the Huddersfield area, including education, highways, environmental health, libraries, planning, etc. The site also includes Kirklees Neighbourhood Housing.
Details of the Huddersfield Leisure Centre. Kirklees Active Leisure also operates other sports centres across the Kirklees district.
Information about Kirklees Council libraries and opening times.
Partnership of the five West Yorkshire metropolitan district authorities led by a board chaired by elected mayor Tracy Brabin and made up by councillors elected in Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield plus the chair of the Leeds Enterprise Partnership and a non-voting member from the City of York unitary authority.
Information on the West Yorkshire Trading Standards service and links to services that help the consumer.
Latest campaigns and news from the West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service.
The West Yorkshire Police website.
The UK's independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals.
Tourist information
Kirklees Council webpage for visitors with link to Huddersfield and Holmfirth visitors guide brochure.
University
Details of the wide range of courses, open days, online prospectus, research and enterprise and Business Gateway.