John Radcliffe Hospital wards
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If you have, or have had, any symptoms, such as cough, fever, diarrhoea, vomiting or a cold, please wait until you are completely better before visiting.
Please use the alcohol hand gel (on the wall by the entrances to the wards) when you arrive, and wash your hands with soap and water when you leave.
There may be times when the visitor is asked to move away from the bedside for short periods of time for clinical reasons.
We are unable to allow flowers.
Children's Hospital
Bellhouse-Drayson Ward (incorporating Children's Clinical Decision Unit)
(Cardiorespiratory, gastroenterology and acute medicine)
Level 0 Children's Hospital
- Visiting: 24 hours for parents and relatives. There is space for one parent to stay overnight with their child.
- Tel: 01865 231237 / 231247
- For families of longer stay patients there is a Ronald McDonald House on the John Radcliffe Hospital site. Demand for these rooms is extremely high, therefore we regret that we cannot guarantee accommodation.
- Leaflet: Welcome to Bellhouse-Drayson Ward (pdf)
Children's Day Care Ward (Children's specialist surgery)
Level 1 Children's Hospital
- Open for children and their families:
Monday to Thursday 7.30am - 6.45pm
Friday 7.30am - 4.45pm
- Tel: 01865 234148
Kamran's Ward (Haematology and oncology)
Level 0 Children's Hospital
Melanie's Ward (Adolescent medicine)
Level 0 Children's Hospital
- Tel: 01865 234054 / 5
- For families of longer stay patients there is a Ronald McDonald House on the John Radcliffe Hospital site. Demand for these rooms is extremely high, therefore we regret that we cannot guarantee accommodation.
Robin's Ward (Neurosciences and specialist surgery paediatric inpatients)
Level 1 Children's Hospital
- Tel: 01865 231254 / 5
- For families of longer stay patients there is a Ronald McDonald House on the John Radcliffe Hospital site. Demand for these rooms is extremely high, therefore we regret that we cannot guarantee accommodation.
Tom's Ward (Children's general surgery)
Level 1 Children's Hospital
West Wing and Oxford Eye Hospital
Lichfield Day Surgery Unit (Adult day surgery for patients having ENT/Plastic/Ophthalmology and OMFS surgery)
Level 0 West Wing
- Open: Monday to Friday 7.00am - 8.30pm
- Tel: 01865 231296 / 231397
Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit (Neuro ICU)
Level 1 West Wing
- Tel: 01865 234918
- It is particularly helpful if all telephone enquiries are made by one family spokesperson.
Neuroscience Rehabilitation Unit
Level 2 West Wing
Neuroscience Therapy Office: 01865 234475
Neuroscience Ward
Level 2 West Wing
Oxford Eye Hospital (Ophthalmics)
Level LG1 West Wing
Tel: 01865 234163
Specialist Surgery Inpatients Ward (Maxillofacial, Ophthalmology, Plastic surgery and ENT)
Level 0 West Wing
Tel: 01865 221917 Monday to Friday 8.00am - 4.00pm
Out of hours call Switchboard: 0300 304 7777 - Bleep SSIP Ward Coordinator 6521
- Beds 14-19: 01865 221931
- Beds 20,21,33,34: 01865 234684
- Beds 23-32: 01865 231233
Oxford Heart Centre
Cardiac Angiography Suite (formerly Cardiac Day Care Unit / CDCU) and Cardiac Investigations Annexe (CIA)
(Cardiac day care)
Tel: 01865 572614 / 572616
Cardiology Ward (Cardiology)
Level 0, Oxford Heart Centre
Tel: 01865 572671
Cardiac and Thoracic Critical Care Unit (CTCCU)
Including Coronary Care Unit (CCU) and Cardiothoracic Critical Care (CTCC)
Level 1, Oxford Heart Centre
- Reception: 01865 572635
- Nurses' Station A: 01865 572639
- Nurses' Station B: 01865 572641
- Nurses' Station C: 01865 572644
- Please ring the bell on arrival and wait for a member of staff to accompany you to your relative.
- We ask that phone calls are restricted to immediate family / next of kin only.
Cardiothoracic Ward
Level 2, Oxford Heart Centre
Tel: 01865 572663
Critical Care
Adult Intensive Care and High Dependency
Tel: 01865 222713
Trauma Building
Trauma Outpatients
Tel: 01865 220217
Inpatient Wards
Tel: 01865 221128 / 221135
JR main hospital
Level 1
Children's (Paediatric) Critical Care Unit (PICU)
Entrance via Level 1 JR main building
Tel: 01865 220632 / 3
Emergency Assessment Unit (EAU)
Entrance via Level 1 JR main building
- Tel: 01865 740400
- Please avoid calling before 10.00am and between 1.00pm - 1.30pm and 8.30pm - 9.00pm.
Theatres
Level 1 JR main building opposite the entrance to X-ray
Tel: 01865 221050 / 5
Level 2
Outpatients Blue Area
Please see Patient Contact Centre
'Here for Health' Centre
Centre for health and wellbeing
Ambulance Transfer Lounge
Endoscopy
Tel: 01865 223010
Level 4
Ambulatory Assessment Unit (AAU)
Level 4 JR main building
- Multidisciplinary unit dedicated to urgent ambulatory and day case management of complex patients.
- Tel: 01865 221812 / 01865 221814
John Warin Ward (Infectious diseases and tropical medicine)
Level 4 JR main building
Tel: 01865 225214
Lionel Cosin Day Hospital (Geratology)
Level 4 JR main building
- Open: 8.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday for appointments (excluding bank holidays).
- Tel: 01865 228777
- Please telephone reception if you are unable to keep your appointment.
Level 5
5A: Female Short Stay Medical Ward
Level 5 JR main building
Please ask for a 'Knowing Me' care plan. We support 'John's Campaign'
Tel: 01865 221830 / 1
5B: Male Short Stay Medical Ward
Level 5 JR main building
Please ask for a 'Knowing Me' care plan. We support 'John's Campaign'
Tel: 01865 740385
5C/D: Osler Respiratory Unit
Level 5 JR main building
Tel: 01865 221966 / 221970
5E/F: Acute Medical Short Stay Ward
Level 5 JR main building
- Reception: 01865 226150
- Sister's Office: 01865 226542
- Ward 5E Nurses' Station: 01865 231746
Parenteral Nutrition (Vascular Access and Enteral Tube Management)
Level 5 JR main building C/D Corridor
- Tel: 01865 221653
- We can advise our own patients on emergency issues relating to their treatment and offer advice nationally to others.
Level 6
Vascular Triage
Level 6 JR main building
Tel: 01865 221802 / 221804
6A: Vascular Ward
Level 6 JR main building
Tel: 01865 221802 / 221804
6B: General Medicine
Level 6 JR main building
Tel: 01865 221793
Surgical Emergency Unit (SEU) Ward 6D / Ward 6E / Ward 6F
(Emergency surgical admissions)
Level 6 JR main building
- Assessment area (18 beds) (SEUD): 01865 221821 / 221822 - also known as Ward 6D
- Male ward (20 beds) (SEUE): 01865 857950 / 857951 - also known as Ward 6E
- Female ward (20 beds) (SEUF): 01865 221840 / 221841 - also known as Ward 6F
- Mobile phones may affect our monitoring equipment: only use them in corridors or the lift lobby outside the unit.
Level 7
Complex Medicine Unit (CMU) (Emergency medical admissions) CMU A / CMU B / CMU C / CMU D
Level 7 JR main building
Previously known as 'Wards 7A - 7D'
Please ask for a 'Knowing Me' care plan. We support 'John's Campaign'
Follow signs from the lift lobby on the 7th floor.
- Male wards (CMU A: 01865 221855/2 / CMU C: 01865 221967/8)
- Female wards (CMU B: 01865 221758 / 221969 / CMU D: 01865 221980)
7E: Acute Stroke Unit
Tel: 01865 221180
7F: Gastroenterology / Hepatology
Level 7 JR main building
Tel: 01865 221185
City Community Hospital (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)
This has now moved to the Fulbrook Centre, Churchill Hospital
Visiting a Community Hospital (Oxford Health website)
Women's Centre and Maternity
Community Midwives Office (Maternity)
Level 5 JR Women's Centre
Contact the office by telephone rather than visiting in person.
- Community Midwives Office, Level 7: 01865 221696
Monday to Thursday 9.00am - 2.00pm (no answerphone)
- Blenheim Team Midwives: 01865 220457 (answerphone)
- Isis Team Midwives: 01865 779284 (answerphone)
- For urgent maternity advice, contact the Maternity Assessment Unit: 01865 220221
Gynaecology and Obstetric Outpatients Department
Level 1 JR Women's Centre
- Open: 8.30am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday
- Tel: 01865 220447 / 8 / 9
Gynaecology Ward (Gynaecology)
Level 1 JR Women's Centre
Tel: 01865 222001 / 2
Maternity Day Assessment Unit (Outpatient pregnancy monitoring)
Level 2 JR Women's Centre.
- Open: 8.00am - 8.30pm Monday to Friday and 9.00am - 3.00pm Saturday and Sunday
- Tel: 01865 221711
- Outpatients are seen when referred by community midwives, GPs or other hospital departments.
Level 5 Maternity
Level 5 JR Women's Centre
- Visiting: only a mother's own children may visit.
- Tel: 01865 221880 / 1
Level 6 Maternity
Level 6 JR Women's Centre
Tel: 01865 221721 / 2
Level 7 Maternity
Level 7 JR Women's Centre
Tel: 01865 221663
Newborn Care Unit
Level 2 JR Women's Centre
As you enter the Women's Centre on Level 2, please follow signs for the Newborn Care Unit.
- Intensive Care parents' telephone number: 01865 228387
- High Dependency parents' telephone number: 01865 228386
- Low Dependency parents' telephone number: 01865 572686
Last reviewed:25 January 2024