John Radcliffe Hospital

The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford is the largest hospital in the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, with 832 beds, and serves a population of around 655,000 people. It provides acute medical and surgical services, trauma, and intensive care and offers specialist and general clinical services to the people of Oxfordshire. The John Radcliffe Hospital site includes the Children’s Hospital, Oxford Eye Hospital, Oxford Heart Centre, Women’s Centre, Neurosciences Centre, Medical Emergency Unit, Surgical Emergency Unit, and West Wing. It is Oxfordshire’s main accident and emergency (ED) site. The trust provides 90 specialist services and is the lead hospital in regional networks for trauma; vascular surgery; neonatal intensive care; primary coronary intervention and stroke.

We inspected the surgical and emergency department services provided at this location.