West Yorkshire is home to five of six national NHS offices and is the UK’s leading centre for healthcare and innovation.
Hospitals, universities, and industry partners across the health, social care and wellbeing ecosystem in West Yorkshire work together driving innovation in patient care, health and wellbeing.
West Yorkshire offers unparalleled opportunities to launch and accelerate investor growth ambitions, with Huddersfield as the heart of evolution.
Business investors will find targeted support and soft-landing packages – providing unrivalled prospects to locate and grow in Huddersfield.
From 2024, Huddersfield’s 3M Buckley Innovation Centre will offer a bespoke health-tech makerspace and data visualisation facility. This space will facilitate access to emerging technologies and support business scale-up and growth. In the future, this facility will be co-located with the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust, Locala and NHS England Community Diagnostic Hub at the NHIC Health and Wellbeing Innovation Centre fostering innovation and knowledge transfer for hi-tech startup and SME businesses in the healthcare sector.
Along the Huddersfield Station to Stadium Enterprise Corridor, the Investment Zone will benefit from a range of interventions which include skills training and business support. Innovators will benefit from proximity to the National Health Innovation Campus, which provides easy access to academia, research, and product testing.
With an already impressive track record in professional health courses and pioneering research, the University of Huddersfield is investing £250 million in a new Campus, offering remarkable opportunities for businesses and investors. This exciting development is driving further regeneration, investment, jobs, and growth in the field of health and wellbeing in Huddersfield.
In the centre of Huddersfield, this transformative project will improve health outcomes and lead innovation in healthcare for the North of England though it’s unique approach to partnerships, world-leading research facilities and specialist clinical teaching facilities. The campus has a growing international profile, catalysing significant interest in Huddersfield from health-related businesses and investors.
With seven buildings planned in total, development is happening at pace, with the first building open and the second under construction.
The Daphne Steele Building opened September 2024 housing teaching spaces, an award-winning podiatry clinic, gait analysis, offices, labs and simulation suites in the Health and Wellbeing Academy – part of the School of Human and Health Sciences. Featuring moss-covered walls, and bright, airy spaces, the building (as will the whole campus be) is built to platinum WELL Building Standards, enhancing the health and wellbeing of the people on campus.
Under construction, the Emily Siddon Building includes a Community Diagnostic Centre Hub in partnership with Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust, and a health-themed Business Innovation Centre.
Follow the progress of the National Health Innovation Campus project on the University of Huddersfield’s website.
Investing in Huddersfield offers a unique opportunity to kickstart and accelerate your business growth.
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Discover West Yorkshire’s potential to become the leading Healthtech cluster in the nation providing unrivalled prospects for partners to locate and grow. View the West Yorkshire Healthtech Strategy 2022-2027 for further information.
