ABOUT US
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.
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We provide a wide range of clinical services, specialist services (including cardiac, cancer, musculoskeletal and neurological rehabilitation) medical education, training and research.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Our Sevices
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 per cent are delivered from 44 other locations across the region, and some in patients' homes. We have around 1.4 million patient contacts each year and, in addition to providing general hospital services, we draw patients from across the country for specialist services not routinely available elsewhere.
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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.
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We also engage on health issues with patient groups, our Foundation Trust membership, local Healthwatch, the Community Partnership Network, local authorities, the Oxfordshire Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee, and the Oxfordshire Health and Wellbeing Board.
Our Income
Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) provides 40% of the Trust’s income for the delivery of patient services, whilst 12% comes from other commissioners outside Oxfordshire, notably Buckinghamshire (Aylesbury Vale and Chiltern), and Northamptonshire CCGs (Nene and Corby). The largest commissioner of the Trust’s services is NHS England’s Wessex Area Team, which commissions specialist services on behalf of our local population and also for a regional (and in some cases national) patient group. They are responsible for 48% of the Trust’s income for services.
Our Chair
Professor Sir Jonathan Montgomery has been appointed as the new Chair of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and succeeded Dame Fiona Caldicott in Spring 2019. Sir Jonathan is Professor of Healthcare Law at University College London (UCL) and Chair of the Health Research Authority, which protects and promotes the interests of participants, patients and the public in health research. He served on local NHS boards in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight for more than 20 years up to March 2013 – including being the Chair of a group of primary care trusts, a strategic health authority and two provider trusts – and was a member of the panel of advisers to the Morecambe Bay Investigation, which reported in 2015. He is also a past Chair of the Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and the Human Genetics Commission.
Our Executive
Dr Bruno Holthof has been the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of OUH since October 2015. Before OUH he was CEO of the Antwerp Hospital Network (ZNA) from January 2004 until September 2015. During this period, he transformed ZNA into the most profitable hospital group in Belgium. Before becoming a CEO, he was a Partner at McKinsey and Company and gained significant expertise in the areas of strategy, organisation and operations. Dr Holthof holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and an MD/PhD from the University of Leuven.
Our Vision
To be at the heart of a sustainable and outstanding, innovative academic health science system, working in partnership and through networks locally, nationally and internationally to deliver and develop excellence and value in patient care, teaching and research through a culture of compassion and integrity.
The Trust aims to support this mission through six core values:
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Excellence
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Compassion
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Respect
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Delivery
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Learning
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Improvement
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This is best summed up as Delivering Compassionate Excellence.
