Hugh Grosvenor, The Duke of Westminster, has donated £1m towards Oxford University’s COVID-19 mental health research programmes. This is part of the £10m donation announced by the Westminster Foundation last month to support the national COVID-19 relief effort. The grant will be made available through the Westminster Foundation to support the University’s Department of Psychiatry, which […]
A Mental Health Urgent Care Centre has been launched in Buckinghamshire to support adults who need vital mental health care during the coronavirus outbreak. The urgent care centre, established at Peach Tree House in the grounds of Whiteleaf Mental Health Centre in Aylesbury, offers a round-the-clock alternative to A&E for people who require immediate in-person care […]
University of Oxford researchers have begun recruiting for the next phase in human trials of a COVID-19 vaccine in human volunteers. The phase I trial in healthy adult volunteers began in April. More than 1,000 immunisations have been completed and follow-up is currently ongoing. The next study will enrol up to 10,260 adults and children and will […]
Tucked away in the back of the John Radcliffe Hospital is the University of Oxford’s state-of-the-art medical simulation, teaching and research facility. Oxford Simulation, Teaching and Research (OxSTaR), led by Dr Helen Higham, is part of the Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences. OxSTaR runs simulated scenarios – complete with highly realistic […]
The Academy of Medical Sciences, the independent body in the UK representing the diversity of medical science, has today announced the election of fifty new Fellows, including six academics from the University of Oxford. The six new Oxford Fellows are: Professor David Bennett FMedSci, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences Dave Bennett studies the response of the nervous […]
The University of Oxford has today announced an agreement with the UK-based global biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca for the further development, large-scale manufacture and potential distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine candidate currently being trialled by the University. © Dr Sean Elias The partnership is to begin immediately with the final terms being agreed in the coming […]
Tucked away in an unassuming annexe at the back of the John Radcliffe Hospital you will find a powerhouse at the centre of training NHS staff on the COVID-19 front line. This is OxSTaR (Oxford Simulation, Teaching and Research), the University of Oxford’s state-of-the-art medical simulation, teaching and research facility. This unit, led by Dr Helen Higham, […]
A consultant haematologist at the Churchill Hospital is co-leading a major programme to collect convalescent plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19 to support a national clinical trial. University of Oxford Professor David Roberts, who is also Associate Medical Director, NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) will be looking at whether transfusion of antibody-containing plasma from […]
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is reminding pregnant women in Oxfordshire that medical help is still at hand during the COVID-19 pandemic. Like many maternity units, the Trust has made a number of changes recently to how we provide care to women during pregnancy, to keep both patients and staff members safe. This has included […]
Over 300 international researchers from the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) community studied data from almost 1 million patients. They declared hydroxychloroquine safe for short-term use, but urge caution in using it in combination with azithromycin. The largest analysis to date on the safety of the drug hydroxychloroquine, found there were no worrying […]