👏We’re thrilled our cross-sector project to improve #Alzheimer’s diagnosis, a partnership with Lilly, Dementias Platform UK, and four NHS Trusts, has been shortlisted for the 2025 HSJ Partnership of the Year Award, recognising healthcare innovation in the UK

☕ 🍰Join us for a coffee morning and a screening of 3 short films about dementia research. You will have an opportunity to ask questions, learn about local health services and ways you can take part in research. 📅Thursday 27 November 🕧 11am to 1.30pm 📍POWIC building, Warneford Hospital, OX3 7JX

A member of the GALENOS lived experience board, Sandra Kimuge, told us more about her role and that of the wider board in this research. Read more from Sandra: tinyurl.com/yc3hkhdx @diegopizzagalli.bsky.social @oxhealthcrf.bsky.social

NEW RESEARCH: The brain chemical dopamine could play a role in anhedonia - a symptom of depression which involves people being unable to experience joy or pleasure.

🧪Last week, we opened our new temperature-controlled BioStorage Service (BOSS), which increases sample storage duration and capacity. 🔬Samples can now be stored for later analysis using techniques that become available in the future. tinyurl.com/28p26xsh

📢@oxfordhealthnhs.bsky.social is launching #CountMeIn a new way to connect you with research into #depression, #anxiety, #bipolar & #dementia. More participants, faster progress, better care. 🔗 Learn more: tinyurl.com/CountMeInOH

Busy evening at the @oxfordhealthnhs.bsky.social NHS Careers Fair at Unipart yesterday! R&D colleagues were non-stop, chatting with attendees about research careers and opportunities. Huge thanks to everyone who came by – the energy and interest were amazing!

📣@oxfordhealthnhs.bsky.social is launching #CountMeIn to transform research participation. 👍Patients will be informed & contacted directly unless they opt out, makes participation easier, and ensures more people have the chance to shape future care. 🌐Learn more: tinyurl.com/CountMeInOHFT

Today on #WorldMentalHealthDay, we’re proud to celebrate the research excellence taking place OH CRF. We run a range of studies into conditions like dementia, depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, exploring new medications and improved diagnostics. Read more tiny.cc/k4ot001

🏆 We’re proud to share that the #Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker Pilot Project, delivered by our Clinical Research Facility, has been nominated for a prestigious Health Service Journal (HSJ) Partnership of the Year award! Read more tinyurl.com/5ea2xmee

Older People’s Day at Oxford Town Hall yesterday was full of energy and insight. Our Research stand welcomed older adults to explore how their lived experience can shape better care. Read more about the day on our website: tinyurl.com/35rxb78t

CRF staff, participants, visitors and people who came to our events have been working hard over the summer, to co-create a stunning mosaic. The design reflects the quiet, calm space of our courtyard garden where it will be installed. Come back in November to see the finished piece of artwork!

🏆 Huge congratulations to Clinical Research Nurse Abigail Stuart who has won an Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Exceptional People Award! Abigail was nominated for consistently going above and beyond her role, demonstrating an unparalleled commitment to excellence. tinyurl.com/mvucpcwk

Want to make a difference in mental health research? Volunteer at the NIHR Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility! Support staff & participants, assist with admin, gain insight into clinical trials. Apply here: oxford-health.goassemble.com/opportunitie... #Volunteering #MentalHealth #Research

🎊 Oxford Health CRF is making great strides in delivering high-quality #mentalhealth research, thanks to our amazing team! Colleagues have been working hard to coordinate study visits in areas including dementia, depression, bipolar disorder, psychosis and schizophrenia. tinyurl.com/2jn892s6

This World Alzheimer’s Month, we reflect on the progress of the OH CRF Cerebrospinal Fluid biomarker pilot, a national collaboration that’s reshaping early diagnosis of Alzheimer's, helping clinicians deliver faster, more accurate diagnoses. Learn more: tinyurl.com/ycvs2r3z

Had a brilliant afternoon at the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Induction. Fantastic to meet so many new colleagues ready to make a difference, deliver outstanding care, and explore how research and innovation can shape the future. Welcome to the Trust!

CRF Team Lead Debbie Moll has graduated with an MSc in Professional Practice (Physical Healthcare) from Oxford Brookes University. Her dissertation explored whether people with aphasia find slower speech easier to understand. Filiz Bristow from Oxford Health NHS Trust graduated alongside Debbie.

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, in partnership with the University of Oxford, has submitted plans for Warneford Park: a transformative mental health and medical research campus in Headington. oxfordhealthcrf.nihr.ac.uk/planning-app...

Members of the CRF team as well as R&D colleagues had a great day at Oxford Health NHS FT and Active Oxfordshire Have A Go Festival. The event invites people with learning disabilities to 'have a go' at a range of sports and activities. The team spoke to people about 'having a go' at research too.

Deborah Moll, CRF Team Lead, co-authored a scoping review on economic evaluations in Speech & Language Therapy. The evidence is growing, but we need a more coordinated research approach to understand SLT's economic value. Great collaboration with University of Lancashire, RCSLT, and fellow SLTs.

🎥Recently, our Clinical Research Facility has opened its doors to facilitate filming for local and national news outlets. We have been able to highlight a selection of Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust studies into #depression and #dementia that the Facility supports. ➡️ tinyurl.com/bdzm8ncf

Some of our staff have spent the morning at Rose Hill Community Centre. These events help us connect with local communities, to discuss mental health, learn about their priorities and showcase some of our research. We also got lots of help with the new mosaic for our courtyard!

📣ICYMI Parkinson’s drug, #pramipexole, is showing real promise for treating treatment-resistant depression. ITV Meridian covered the Pax-D story 18.07, featuring Phil Harvey, whose life changed after joining the trial. Hopeful signs for mental health care. Watch the segment: tinyurl.com/paxdTRD

Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility (OH CRF) working in partnership with the University of Oxford is one of 18 centres supporting the national National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) BioResource facilities in England. For more information email [email protected]

A thank you to Val, Senior Administrator at the CRF, from an ISAP participant who completed their final visit. She was given flowers and for her warmth and care which made every visit easier. A reminder that research is about people: our amazing participants and our hard-working, caring staff!

Several members of the OH CRF team are in Birmingham for the next couple of days at the Joint CRF Network and BRC Conference We're excited about the next few days on achieving impact through collaboration #CRFBRC25

The Clinical Research Facility was well represented at the 2025 Celebrating NMAHPPs in Research conference. Team Lead Debbie Moll presented her Masters Dissertation research, and Amanda Colston, CRF Matron, co-chaired the morning.

📣Have a Go Festival is back! Join us today, 10am–2pm at Horspath Athletics Track, Oxford. A free, fun day of sport & activities for adults with learning disabilities. Meet research teams from our CRF and @nihr.bsky.social r.bsky.social ready to chat, share & inspire.

With today marking #Red4Research, our Clinical Research Facility Manager Claudia Hurducas is showing her support for people who take part in health care research and deliver clinical trials. Read more about the Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility: oxfordhealthcrf.nihr.ac.uk #BePartofResearch

🎉 Today the our team at CRF are marking #Red4Research by wearing red to show our support for those who deliver and take part in research 🎉 To learn more about the Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility visit our website: oxfordhealthcrf.nihr.ac.uk #BePartofResearch

To celebrate the Great Big Green Week last week, the NIHR Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility embraced sustainability and wellbeing with hands-on initiatives. Staff took part in a swap stall to give pre-loved items a new home and added new planting and to the CRF’s lush garden.

We had the most fantastic (if damp) day at #OxfordPride2025 last Saturday! A huge thank you to everyone who visited our stand in South Park. We loved meeting everyone to talk about the vital contribution that people like YOU make in advancing mental health research. See you all next year!

As part of the #BePartOfResearch campaign, we’re sharing CRiB2 - a study at NIHR Oxford Health CRF aiming to support thinking skills and daily life for people with #bipolardisorder. Learn more: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/the... #CTD2025

In recognition of #ClinicalTrialsDay & #BePartOfResearch, we’re sharing COMP006 - a study at OH CRF exploring investigational psilocybin for Treatment Resistant Depression. Live within 50 miles of Oxford? [email protected] #CTD2025

Well done to the team for being recognised by the study team for screening 100 participants to the ISAP trial, For more on ISAP and our other trials, and details of how you can take part, see our website oxfordhealthcrf.nihr.ac.uk/open-clinica...

Celebrating #ClinicalTrialsDay with OH CRF! We're sharing mental health studies you can join - like EDGI, open to anyone 16+ in England with experience of eating disorders. Learn more & sign up: www.edgi.org #BePartOfResearch #CTD2025

Thank you to everyone who came to our open afternoon for #InternationalClinicalTrialsDay! We were delighted to offer tours of our facility, whilst the pharmacy team were on hand to explain study randomization. And CRF Director, Professor Andrea Cipriani, laid the first tile in our new mosaic.

It's a beautiful day in Oxford. Perfect for tea and cake in our garden with our amazing team, whilst you learn about our work and help us celebrate #InternationalClinicalTrialsDay!

Members of our team are enjoying this week's RDF Conference in Manchester. Martin Batty, Head of Oxford Health NHS FT R&D, presented his poster exploring whether the time to recruit the first participant to a commercial trial can predict the performance of the site in that study. #RDF25

🌟As part of this year's International Clinical Trials Day campaign, we are sharing information about our currently recruiting mental health studies.🌟 The ASCEnD Trial is looking for adults aged 18+ with #bipolar and #depression, to participate in a study looking at a combination treatment.

One of our major studies has been featured in the Banbury Guardian. If you want to find out more about our work or to take part in research, there is information about how to get involved on our website: oxfordhealthcrf.nihr.ac.uk/how-to-get-i...

Join us tomorrow from 1pm to 3.30pm at our Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility Open Afternoon to celebrate #InternationalClinicalTrialsDay. Meet our researchers and staff and learn more about our work over tea and cake. oxfordhealthcrf.nihr.ac.uk/oh-crf-celeb... #ClinicalTrialsDay

As part of its sustainability efforts, Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility has donated expired but still usable medical supplies including syringes, cannulas, dressings, and blood tubes, to Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital.

Join us on 20th May for our Open Afternoon. Have a tour of the facility, meet our staff and research team, learn more about our work. We welcome researchers, professionals and anyone who is interested in finding out more. No need to book: we're open 1pm to 3.30pm at the Warneford Hospital, Oxford

We are thrilled to announce that the Clinical Research Facility has received three nominations for the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Staff Awards, which acknowledge the dedication, hard work, and positive impact that staff have on patients, families, and the wider community.

Staff at the CRF met with artist Becky Paton, to share ideas about our new mosaic. The work will be coproduced over the summer by staff and trial participants and installed in our courtyard. What will the final design be? Watch this space! For more info about Becky visit www.beckymosaics.co.uk

Our CRF are facilitating research in treatment options for bipolar disorder and depression. Colleagues from Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust have recently recruited our first participants. oxfordhealthcrf.nihr.ac.uk/first-partic...

If you'd like to hear Sam speak about his journey, he was recently interviewed on That's TV in Oxford www.facebook.com/ThatsTVOxfor...