The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (OUH) is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the UK with a national and international reputation for the excellence of its services and its role in teaching and research. Clinical care is delivered by experienced specialists . Our trust is made up of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital (which also includes the Children's Hospital and West Wing), Churchill Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, all located in Oxford and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust was formally established on 1 November 2011 when the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust merged with the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust and became the seventh clinical division of the new expanded organisation.
On the same date a formal Joint Working Agreement between the Trust and the University of Oxford came into effect. This agreement builds on existing working relationships between the two organisations (see Research section below).
The Trust provides a wide range of clinical services, including both local and specialist services (including cardiac, cancer, musculoskeletal and neurological rehabilitation, and specialist children’s and neonatal services) as well as medical education, training and research.
The Trust employed over 11,500 people at the end of the financial year (2013/2014) and had a turnover of £868 million. The Trust provides general hospital services for people in Oxfordshire and neighbouring counties, and specialist services on a regional and national basis.
At the Trust in 2013/14 there were:
1 million patient contacts;
108,000 planned admissions;
90,000 emergency admissions;
130,000 emergency department attendances;
1.4 million meals for patients
8,315 babies delivered.
The Trust’s hospitals in Oxford serve an Oxfordshire population of 655,000 and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury has a catchment population of around 150,000 people in north Oxfordshire and neighbouring communities in south Northamptonshire and south east Warwickshire.
Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group provides 37.6% of the Trust’s income for the delivery of patient services and 14.7% comes from other commissioners outside Oxfordshire, notably Buckinghamshire CCGs (Aylesbury Vale and Chiltern), Northamptonshire CCGs (Nene and Corby).
The largest commissioner of the Trust’s services is NHS England’s Wessex Area Team who commission specialist services on behalf of our local population and also for a regional (and in some cases national) patient group. They are responsible for 47.7% of income for services.
We have strong partnerships with the local NHS and social care organisations and also with a wider network of district general hospitals, universities and research institutions. Our role as a university teaching centre with a focus on research and innovation is a defining feature and as such attracts patients from beyond our surrounding counties.
We also engage on health issues with patients groups, our Foundation Trust membership, local Healthwatch, the Community Partnership Network (a body hosted by Cherwell District Council that we helped found in order to have a public forum in which to discuss health issues in the north of the county), local authorities and the Oxfordshire Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee and Health and Wellbeing Board.
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