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£2.4million to fund largest-ever trial of ketamine-assisted therapy for alcohol disorder
News published on December 13, 2022
Alcohol problems affect not only individuals but also their families, friends and communities. Alcohol-related harm is estimated to cost the NHS around £3.5 billion each year and wider UK society around £40 billion.
Energy and motivation to see medical trainees succeed
News published on November 17, 2022
Dr Gerti Stegen has been named Psychiatric Educator of the Year in the Royal College of Psychiatrists RCPsych Awards 2022. This is a fabulous recognition of her achievements in a role she never planned to have but ended up loving.
Dr Max Taquet’s hat trick: three RCPsych awards in five years
News published on November 14, 2022
Dr Maxime Taquet has been named the Core Psychiatric Trainee of the Year in the Royal College of Psychiatrists RCPsych Awards 2022.
This is the third national RCPsych award Max has received in five years: he was awarded the Foundation Doctor of the Year in 2020 and Medical Student of the Year in 2017 – quite a hat trick!
£35.4m to transform mental and brain health care across the UK – and the world
News published on October 14, 2022
Innovative treatments and transformative therapies in brain health are on the horizon thanks to a £35.4 million award to the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre.
Tackling suicide risk in people with mental disorders
News published on August 9, 2022
Clinical researchers from Oxford University’s Department of Psychiatry and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, including nurse consultant Karen Lascelles, together with colleagues from elsewhere, have developed guidance to help clinicians identify and treat patients at risk of suicide.
HOPE are NHS Parliamentary Award WINNERS!
News published on July 6, 2022
Ground-breaking eating disorder provider collaborative awarded Excellence in Mental Health at the NHS Parliamentary Awards 2022
ADAPT training underway
News published on June 20, 2022
A training programme for people who do, or would like to work with assistive technology has now been launched.
Open day to show the value of research
News published on June 6, 2022
NIHR Oxford and Oxford Health BRCs hold Joint Open Day in 5 July to increase awareness about the benefits of BRC-funded medical research
Dementia sufferer’s daughter calls for research volunteers
News published on May 20, 2022
A retired Oxfordshire IT trainer who is taking part in a dementia study after seeing her mum with the disease has urged others to participate in research
Expansion of the Oxford Joint Research Office
News published on April 8, 2022
Oxford’s Joint Research Office (JRO) has expanded to include teams from Oxford Health (OH) NHS Foundation Trust and Oxford Brookes University (OBU), joining the clinical research support teams from the University of Oxford (OU) and Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) NHS Foundation Trust.