Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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About us

Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) is a world renowned centre of clinical excellence and one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the UK. We became a Foundation Trust on 1 October 2015 and believe that this will enable us to work more effectively in partnership with our patients and our local community to provide high quality healthcare.

The Trust is made up of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital (which includes the Children's Hospital, West Wing, Eye Hospital, Heart Centre and Women's Centre), the Churchill Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, all located in Oxford, and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury, north Oxfordshire.

We provide a wide range of clinical services, specialist services (including cardiac, cancer, musculoskeletal and neurological rehabilitation) medical education, training and research.

Most services are provided in our hospitals, but over six percent are delivered from 44 other locations across the region, and some in patients' homes.

Our collaboration with the University of Oxford underpins the quality of the care that is provided to patients, from the delivery of high-quality research, bringing innovation from the laboratory bench to the bedside, to the delivery of high-quality education and training of doctors.

Existing collaborations include the ambitious research programmes established through the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), located on the John Radcliffe Hospital site and at the Biomedical Research Unit in musculoskeletal disease at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. These set the standard in translating science and research into new and better NHS clinical care.

We are also working towards achieving Magnet® Recognition, an organisational credential awarded to exceptional healthcare organisations that meet the ANCC (American Nurses' Credentialing Center) standards for quality patient care, nursing and midwifery excellence and innovations in professional nursing and midwifery practice.

During 2019-20 the Trust had:

1,471,197 patient attendances in total - outpatients, inpatients, day cases and Emergency Department attendances including:

  • 102,824 planned admissions (elective inpatients and day cases)
  • 103,533 unplanned and emergency admissions
  • 165,011 Emergency Department attendances

and delivered 7,574 babies!

At the end of 2019-20, there were:

1,133 beds including:

  • 946 general and acute
  • 79 critical care level (including Children's critical care and HDU but excluding 50 Neonatal)
  • 18 rehabilitation
  • 90 for children

58 inpatient areas

48 operating theatres

11,904 staff including:

  • 3,554 nurses and midwives
  • 1,880 doctors
  • 1,960 healthcare support workers