Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Updated 7 June 2019

Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the UK.

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.

The trust provides 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 their hospitals, but over six percent are delivered from 44 other locations across the region, and some in patients' homes.

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

Existing collaborations include 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.

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

Updated 7 June 2019

Our rating of the trust went down. We rated it as requires improvement because:

• We rated, effective, caring and responsive as good, and safe and well led as requires improvement.
• At the John Radcliffe Hospital, we rated two of the trust’s services as good and three as requires improvement. In rating the trust, we took into account the current ratings of the four services not inspected this time.
• At the Churchill Hospital we rated one of the trust’s services as good and one as requires improvement. In rating the trust, we took into account the current ratings of the four services not inspected this time.
• At the Horton General Hospital, we rated one of the trust’s service as good and one as requires improvement. In rating the trust, we took into account the current ratings of the six services not inspected this time.
• At the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, we rated one of the trust’s services as good. In rating the trust, we took into account the current ratings of the two services not inspected this time.
• We rated well-led for the trust overall as requires improvement.

Updated 7 June 2019

Updated 7 June 2019