National Health Innovation Campus

As a student

Campus buildings

Each building will house its own specialist equipment and will facilitate different kinds of healthcare. See our building pages to learn more about what they can provide you in your studies.

1. Daphne Steele Building - Provides state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for our midwifery, nursing, occupational therapy, operating department practice, paramedic science, physiotherapy, podiatry and speech and language therapy courses. 
2. Emily Siddon Building (under construction) - Our specialist clinical teaching facilities and state-of-the-art simulation technology will enable you to learn in a safe, but realistic environment for radiography courses. You’ll also have access to a brand-new Community Diagnostic Centre Hub (CDC). Run by the local NHS trust, the CDC will provide diagnostic tests, including MRI and CT scanners. 

Specialist clinical teaching facilities

These specialist facilities include:

• A mockup ‘residential home’ for use by occupational therapy, paramedic science, mental health nursing and social work / health and social care, where community-based simulated teaching can take place. 
• Psychology labs – computer suites with additional specialist equipment. 
• Sports specialist teaching facilities. 
• In partnership with the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust and relating to the work of the Community Diagnostic Centre Hub (CDC), there will be new facilities in areas such as Diagnostic Radiography. It is expected that these will provide access to state-of-the-art simulation technology enabling students to learn in a safe, but realistic clinical environment.  
• Other areas of expansion, include the intention to develop courses in fields such as Dental Hygiene.

Our expanding Health Professions and Social Care courses

Health Professions and Social Care is a huge subject. From nursing to social work, and from podiatry to operating department practice, we offer a range of courses to help you get started in your chosen career. Including our new and upcoming Diagnostic Radiography course.

See our Health Professions and Social Care courses

As a member of the public

Public facing services

• Our award-winning Podiatry Clinic, which services the needs of staff and public and provides much needed placement opportunities for students. 
• A Gait and Performance Clinic that will enable individuals at all levels of sport and fitness to benefit from cutting-edge sports science testing. Our services are suitable for individuals and teams, from elite athletes to recreational exercisers.
• Get Set Goal is a service that is committed to improving the health and wellness of individuals and communities by helping people to achieve personal goals by making informed and positive lifestyle choices.
• Our THRIVE telehealth service, recently established in conjunction with partners Age UK Wakefield and Aspire, delivered through placement opportunities for Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy students; students work in interdisciplinary pairs with participants by video link, using a health coaching approach to support participants to identify goals and devise intervention plans. 
• New Sports and Physiotherapy Clinics, parent and child clinics, mental health clinics and public facing spaces oriented to the work of social science groupings.
• Communication Diagnotic Centre - The ground floor of the Emily Siddon Building will host a Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC), in partnership with Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust. This is a unique partnership, and the first of its kind on a university campus. The CDC will provide access to thousands of additional diagnostic tests for the people of Calderdale and Huddersfield, including MRI and CT scans, in the heart of Huddersfield. It will be the second Community Diagnostic Centre for the Trust, which recently opened its first CDC in central Halifax.
• Health and Wellbeing Innovation Centre - The Emily Siddon Building will also be home to a Health and Wellbeing Innovation Centre for local entrepreneurs or start-ups and organisations looking to benefit from locating with the University on the campus. The Centre is supported by the West Yorkshire Mayor and Combined Authority through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. It will be operated by the award-winning team responsible for the University’s 3M Buckley Innovation Centre.

Enhanced health, wellbeing and social inclusion outcomes for Yorkshire and the North

The campus will directly impact on outcomes for people and communities across Yorkshire and the North of England. The campus’ aspires to complement Kirklees shared outcomes: 

1. Best Start for Children 
2. Well – people in Kirklees are as well as possible for as long as possible 
3. Independent – healthy aging enabling people live independently and have control over their lives 
4. Aspire and achieve – people have aspirations to achieve their ambitions through education, training, employment and life-long learning. 
5. Sustainable economy – Kirklees has sustainable economic growth and provides good employment for and with communities and businesses 
6. Safe and cohesive – Kirklees has sustainable economic growth and provides good employment for and with communities and businesses. 
7. Clean and green – people in Kirklees experience a high quality, clean, sustainable and green environment.