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Open Day: Exploring Healthcare Research 10.05.23

Come and join us for our Open Day at Leiden Square in the Westgate Centre in Oxford between 10am and 3.30pm on Wednesday 10th May.


Why is the ABATE Study being conducted?

The ABATE study is recruiting volunteers aged 50-75 with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease.


Impact of viewing self harm images

What is the impact when self harm images are viewed on the internet and in social media?


£2.4million to fund largest-ever trial of ketamine-assisted therapy for alcohol disorder

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

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

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

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

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!

Ground-breaking eating disorder provider collaborative awarded Excellence in Mental Health at the NHS Parliamentary Awards 2022


ADAPT training underway

A training programme for people who do, or would like to work with assistive technology has now been launched.