John Radcliffe Hospital

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John Radcliffe Hospital
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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John Radcliffe Hospital
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Location within Oxfordshire
Geography
Location Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Organisation
Care system National Health Service
Type Teaching
Affiliated university
Services
Emergency department Yes – Major Trauma Centre
History
Opened1973
Links
Website www.ouh.nhs.uk/hospitals/jr/ OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

John Radcliffe Hospital (informally known as the JR or the John Radcliffe) is a large tertiary teaching hospital in Oxford, England. It forms part of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is named after John Radcliffe, an 18th-century physician and Oxford University graduate, who endowed the Radcliffe Infirmary, the main hospital for Oxford from 1770 until 2007.

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It is the main teaching hospital for Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University, and incorporates the Oxford University Medical School.

History

The distinctive large white-tiled structure occupies a prominent position on Headington Hill, on the outskirts of Oxford. [1]

JR1: This was the initial hospital building, opened in 1972. It houses women's services and neonatology. The second building, JR2, opened in 1979 and is much larger. It contains most of the other specialist services for the region. [2] Other facilities were then added to the site, including the University of Oxford's Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) of the Brain. [3]

Model Utahraptor at the entrance of John Radcliffe Children's Hospital Model Utahraptor at John Radcliffe Children's Hospital.jpg
Model Utahraptor at the entrance of John Radcliffe Children's Hospital

The West Wing: With the closure of the Radcliffe Infirmary and consolidation of the other hospital sites in Oxford, a further large expansion took place, the facilities for which were procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 2003. The works, which were designed by Austin-Smith:Lord and undertaken by Carillion at a cost of £134 million, were completed in December 2006. [4] This new complex, known as the West Wing, involved the construction of the new Oxford Children's Hospital, the relocated Oxford Eye Hospital, and the departments of neurosciences/head and neck and of Ear Nose & Throat (ENT). [5] The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh officially commemorated the opening of the new West Wing and Children's Hospital at a special ceremony in late November 2008 in front of patients, staff, fundraisers and supporters who had helped raise the £15 million needed to build the Children's Hospital. [6] In 2017 the Oxford University Natural History Museum donated a model Utahraptor for the entrance to the Children's Hospital. [7]

Departments and units

The main parts of the hospital are as follows:

In 2012, the hospital was designated as a major trauma centre, covering the Thames Valley area. [11]

Research

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is the NHS Host, with the University of Oxford as the Academic Partner, for one of the leading Biomedical Research Centres (BRC) in the UK. The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (OxBRC) was one of the 11 original BRCs in 2007, and was awarded £114 million by the UK Department of Health (DH) for its third tranche of research, to begin in April 2017. [12] At the same time, the nearby Oxford Health NIHR BRC, also partnered by the University of Oxford, was awarded a further £12 million, bringing a total of £126 million in research funds to the city. [13]

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