22/02/17

The video films shown as part of the presentations during the Big Health and Care Consultation public events are now available to view online, together with the audio recording of the question and answer sessions at events in Banbury, Chipping Norton and Didcot.

To listen to the recordings and watch the films go to the Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group YouTube channel .

The audio recordings from other public consultation events will be available in the next few weeks.

10/02/17

There are more opportunities to have your say as we have now added three new public events to the Big Health and Care Consultation:

  • Thursday 9 March, 6pm - 8pm in Chipping Norton
  • Tuesday 14 March, 3pm - 5pm in Thame
  • Tuesday 21 March, 6pm - 8pm in Brackley

To book your place at an event and get venue details please call 01865 334638 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Other consultation events:

  • Thursday 16 February, 6pm – 8pm in Witney
  • Tuesday 21 February, 3pm – 5pm in Bicester
  • Monday 27 February, 10.30am – 12.30pm in Brackley
  • Thursday 2 March, 8pm – 10pm in Henley
  • Monday 6 March, 8pm – 10pm in Wallingford
  • Thursday 16 March, 7pm – 9pm in Banbury
  • Thursday 23 March, 6.30pm – 8.30pm in Abingdon

 

 

26/01/17

We are holding 12 consultation events as part of the 'The Big Health and Care Conversation' across the county, where you can talk to clinicians and NHS staff and share your views on our proposals to change some health services.

Places will be limited according to venue size, so please book to attend one of the events to be held on the following dates:

  • Thursday 26 January, 7pm – 9pm in Banbury
  • Thursday 2 February, 2pm – 4pm in Chipping Norton
  • Tuesday 7 February, 3pm – 5pm in Wantage
  • Thursday 9 February, 7pm – 9pm in Oxford
  • Monday 13 February, 10am – 12pm in Didcot
  • Thursday 16 February, 6pm – 8pm in Witney
  • Tuesday 21 February, 3pm – 5pm in Bicester
  • Monday 27 February, 10.30am – 12.30pm in Brackley
  • Thursday 2 March, 8pm – 10pm in Henley
  • Monday 6 March, 8pm – 10pm in Wallingford
  • Thursday 16 March, 7pm – 9pm in Banbury
  • Thursday 23 March, 6.30pm – 8.30pm in Abingdon

Your venue will be confirmed when you reserve a place by calling 01865 334638 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

25/01/17

A special meeting of the watchdog committee that scrutinises the local NHS has been set for Thursday, March 7

The Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee is made of up of county, district and city councillors and co-opted members of the public.

The March 7 meeting will be held at  County Hall in Oxford to formally scrutinise the proposals in Phase 1 of Oxfordshire NHS’s Transformation Consultation and consider whether they are in the interests of local communities and health services in Oxfordshire.

The Committee is inviting written submissions of views and evidence from interested parties, key stakeholders and local groups before the meeting via the Committee officer to inform the Committee’s debate and its formal response. Responses should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

People can still apply to address the Committee directly via the following link https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/content/get-involved-meetings).

For the sake of ensuring that the wide variety of viewpoints are heard it is hoped that this will happen via different interests groups nominating one speaker to represent their overall view to the meeting.

The Committee’s scheduled meeting on February 2 will discuss the NHS plans for communicating and consulting on the proposals, but not their content.

16/01/17

The NHS in Oxfordshire is today (16 January 2017) launching Phase 1 of the 'Big Health and Care Consultation’ to ask patients and the public what they think about possible changes to some healthcare services in the county.

Since summer 2016, the Oxfordshire Transformation Programme has been listening and talking to a wide range of people across the county about how best to develop and improve health services.

29/11/16

In June 2016, the Oxfordshire Healthcare Transformation Programme began wide engagement with patients and public across the county in its ‘Big Health and Care Conversation'.

The Big Conversation describes the challenges for health services to meet growing demands and the projected gap in funding, but also the opportunities for thinking and doing things differently. 

08/11/16

The public consultation on healthcare transformation in Oxfordshire will go ahead in two phases next year.

Patients, the wider public and other stakeholders can initially expect to have their  say on options for changes in critical care, stroke care, ambulatory care  - which reduces the need for hospital admissions  - and maternity services. This phase of consultation, which centres mainly on services in the north of the county including the Horton Hospital in Banbury, is expected to begin in January 2017.

The formal public consultation will last three months. No decisions on healthcare changes in the county will be made until the feedback on options has been considered.

The second phase of the consultation is expected to begin after the county council elections, which take place in May 2017.

04/10/16

The NHS in Oxfordshire  is seeking your views on how local GP, community and hospital services should develop to ensure services are of high quality, closer to home, more convenient with better access and can overcome a £200m funding gap by 2020/21.

Several roadshow events have already taken place in Banbury, Wantage, Oxford, Wallingford, Bicester, Henley-on-Thames and Witney but we still need to hear from more people in the Abingdon area.

The Abingdon roadshow takes place on Wednesday 19 October from 9.30am to 4pm at  Abingdon Community FreeSpace Shop, in Bury Street, Abingdon OX14 3QY (next to the travel agent and opposite H. Samuel).  

22/09/16

The public consultation on proposals for changes to health services in Oxfordshire is set to start end of December / beginning of January 2017.

Although originally scheduled to begin in October, Oxfordshire’s Transformation Board agreed the consultation should begin later to ensure proposals for change are tested rigorously before options are finalised for patients and the public to have their say. Public engagement will continue through until the end of December to the launch of the consultation and will help inform the final proposals.

18/08/16

The NHS in Oxfordshire is calling on young people, parents, patients, carers and people who work in Henley-on-Thames to have their say on the future of healthcare in the county.

The Big Conversation roadshow, on Tuesday 6 September, offers the chance to drop in for an informal chat with doctors and senior NHS staff to share ideas on how healthcare services in Oxfordshire can deliver high quality care now and in the future.