Oxford City Healthcare Hubs

The issue

Currently our staff who provide community physical healthcare services in Oxford are based in a wide range of sites across the city.

These services include those provided in people’s homes, such as by our district nursing and health visitor teams, through to specialist podiatry, dentistry and other clinics.

Many of our staff work from buildings that are no longer fit for purpose. This makes it harder for us to keep our staff and to recruit new colleagues.

The opportunity

Oxford Health has been reviewing the buildings it uses across Oxford City and is now looking to bring teams and services together into three hubs, one each supporting the north, centre and south of the city.

We know that bringing teams and services together improves the quality and reliability of the care experienced by our patients and their families, whilst at the same time making them more attractive places for our staff to work.

Having modern, fit for purpose buildings also helps us to reduce our carbon footprint, so we can maximise the funding used to provide patient care.

Oxford’s proposed new healthcare hubs

The proposal, over the next 18 months, is to create three new community healthcare hubs to serve the people of Oxford and its nearby small towns and villages. The three proposed hubs will be:

Impact

Most of the current sites in Oxford are staff bases – that is places from where teams such as district nurses and health visitors go out to visit and provide care to patients in their homes. Or they travel to hold clinics in place such as GP practices.

However, there are some clinics that people use now that will be moving to the new hubs. Read more about the expected level of impact from these proposed changes:

How to engage with us

We want to understand how the creation of Oxford’s three new hubs might impact patients who will be using them. This feedback will help shape and inform travel plans for the hubs, especially their layout and design to make them as attractive and helpful as possible for patients and carers, as well as for our staff.  We also want to hear about how changing the location of some clinics will have in terms of travelling to and from the new hubs.