Huddersfield Royal Infirmary

Name :

Huddersfield Royal Infirmary

Address  :

Acre Street

Town  :

Huddersfield

State  :

West Yorkshire

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

HD3 3EA

Phone  :

01484 342000

Fax  :

01484 342888

Web URL  :

Not Available

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Description

Huddersfield Royal Infirmary is about three miles from Huddersfield town centre The main hospital first opened its doors in 1965 and since then many millions have been invested in the site to modernise and extend it

The hospital offers a full range of day case outpatient services and an accident and emergency department It is also the specialist centre for emergency surgery planned complex surgery Recent major developments have included the opening of a pound34 million urology unit and investment in a pound500000 stateoftheart CT computerised tomography scanner and suite A full programme of bathroom refurbishment in also underway The Trust owns the Acre Mill site opposite Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and work has started to develop the site for nonclinical services freeing up valuable space on the main hospital site for patient services A major part of this is the opening of an pound8 million pharmacy manufacturing unit on the site in spring 2008 which will produce medicines for people across the country
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