It is managed by Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.

The hospital, which replaced the Royal Halifax Infirmary, was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 1998.

The new hospital was built by Bovis Lend Lease.

[2] It started providing services to patients in April 2001 and was officially opened by Princess Anne on 15 March 2004.

[4] Proposals to close the Accident and Emergency Department in February 2016 provoked a demonstration of 5,000 people in Huddersfield and a petition signed by 60,000 people against it.