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BBC News
22-05-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Health responders exempt from Oxford's Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
Healthcare workers who assess and treat patients in crisis at home will be allowed to drive through restrictions in Oxford's two low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs).Introduced in 2023, the schemes stop motorists taking shortcuts through residential areas in East Oxford and Health NHS Trust supported the exemption for its urgent community response (UCR) workers, which could equate to about five or six vehicles a permission was granted by Oxfordshire County Council's cabinet member for transport management, Andrew Gant. But he said it did not mean other exemptions in the LTNs would be approved."The numbers involved here are tiny and it's not the case that making one change automatically implies that other changes will follow," he said."Each proposal or suggestion is dealt with on its own merits."He added that the council's plan for other measures, including traffic filters, would continue as part of a "multi-pronged approach" to cut congestion in Pugh, Oxford Health's head of transformation, said it was critical that urgent community responders got to people as soon as said delays can lead to "serious knock-on effects" for people and ramifications on the wider healthcare workers often help older people who are having a health crisis or difficulties at home and seek to prevent transferring them to hospital, if council has spent nearly £4m on the LTNs and its quickways cycling routes in Oxford since 2021. You can follow BBC Oxfordshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
BBC News
22-05-2025
- Health
- BBC News
NHS services provided at new health hub for north Oxford
A new NHS health hub has opened in Oxford - the first of its kind in House, near Kidlington, is now the home of a range of services for patients in the north of the city, including district nurses, podiatry and children's and adult specialist in the Summertown and Jericho areas of Oxford, which previously housed some of the services, will be Gibson, from Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, said the new hub on the Jordan Hill Business Park would provide "excellent care" and help with the recruitment and retention of staff. "Attracting staff is hard at the best of times," he said. "Students are taught in a multi-disciplinary way - and that's what they would expect to see in a workplace."Our teams, sitting together, can actually start to talk to each in a way they just didn't before because they were located in different parts of the city."The trust plans to create three hubs in the city, one at the existing East Oxford Health Centre on Manzil Way and another for the south in the Blackbird Leys Gibson said Murray House was "a much, much better facility [and] easier for people to get to, with much better public transport links". Katie Lennon, who runs the reception team at Murray House, said a patient "might be able to see a podiatrist at 10 o'clock and a district nurse at half past 10".She said Oxford Health will use Murray House as "a learning tool" so future hubs will be "equipped with as much information as they can".Staff started moving in toward the end of April, with the first patients arriving by 5 official opening ceremony is expected to be held later this year. You can follow BBC Oxfordshire on Facebook, X, or Instagram.
BBC News
06-02-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Wantage Community Hospital to get £1m investment
An Oxfordshire hospital has been given almost £1m to refurbish its ground Community Hospital will use the funds to accommodate more clinic-based physical and metal health majority of the funding comes from Vale of White Horse District Council, plus a "significant legacy" left to improve the Jane Hanna said: "I am delighted at the progress that has been made and the funding that has been allocated for investment in our local community hospital." Outpatient services at the hospital, which have been piloted over the last two years, will continue, with building work due to be completed later this Hanna said a public meeting was scheduled for late February, when more details would be provided on the design and anticipated timelines for work, along with the likely new services."Everyone has come a long way in agreeing that future, which we will see coming into fruition from later this year," she Ben Riley, Oxford Health's Chief Operating Officer, said: "This investment will help us to make real our vision for more local healthcare provision in the community. "Working in partnership with our health and care partners and the local community to make the case for the funding has been hugely important. "It has directly shaped the building designs and the discussions about the services that will come to the refurbished hospital in the future." You can follow BBC Oxfordshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
