Short-term goals:
- Deliver a strong Memorandum of Understanding for the Partnership.
- Support development, delivery and coordination of strategic plans across the Partners.
- Create a fully integrated Oxford Joint Research Office across all OAHP partners to promote operational collaboration.
- Work towards s national network of Academic Health Science Centres (AHSCs) and the Health Innovation Network to support innovations and transformative technologies into the NHS.
Medium-term goals:
- Establish new early-stage clinical research facilities including cell and gene therapy operating at GMP, GLP and GCP standards.
- Develop joint working and strategic planning with local authorities, residents and patient groups to coordinate new capital and infrastructure plans across the Oxford city-wide campus.
- Develop the workforce in transformative technologies through education and training, in areas including big data, genomics, bioinformatics and advanced therapeutics.
- Create a Centre for Healthcare Implementation & Change to train the workforce in approaches to implementation and adoption of innovation in the health system supporting local, regional and national programmes.
- Extend partnerships with the Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley, NIHR Oxford and Thames Valley Applied Research Collaboration, ARC, Thames Valley ICB and the Health Innovation Network providing academic support to evaluate innovations and facilitate adoption and spread.
Long-term goals:
- Support the development and potential integration of the OAHP partners’ estate, including the Warneford-based clinical-academic campus dedicated to neuroscience and mental health, combining translational research with high-quality clinical care.
- Expand capacity in target discovery for new drugs, building on public-private partnerships, and development of gene/nucleic acid therapies, including manufacturing capacity.
- Develop the OAHP partners’ campus as an international centre for multi-disciplinary and cross-sector research, attracting major pharma and medtech companies to invest in Oxford to support the development of technologies and therapeutics to address national and international priorities.
The OAHP partners maintain a well-developed and linked health sciences campus. It’s physical proximity will support the delivery of the above goals.