Impact

Most of the current sites in Oxford are staff bases, i.e. they’re places from where teams go out to visit and provide care to patients in their homes or to provide clinics from a local building such as a GP practice.

With the creation of the new hubs, this won’t change, but it will be a significant change for our staff who will need to travel to either of the North or South City Hubs in future. Those based already at the East Oxford Health Centre won’t be changing their base as it will become the Central City Hub.

Better access

The bases are being chosen specifically to be close to good public transport links – something that is important to both our patients and staff.  We are developing travel plans to help make it as easy as possible for everyone to travel to and from our new hubs.

Patient care

For those who need to be seen at home this won’t be changing – the fact that the person who provides their care may be travelling from a different base should make no difference.

However, the location of some clinics will be changing – but because they are located close to good public transport links, we hope that most patients will not find this too much of a problem.

But we understand that everyone’s circumstances are different and what might be an easy change for some, can be much more challenging for others.  This is why we want to talk with patients and their families about our proposed new clinic locations so they can help us think about what changes might be needed.