Trauma, Emergency, and Critical Care are among the most significant challenges facing patients, and healthcare systems worldwide. The three specialty areas are bound together by a need for speed - 'urgent' interventions to save patients' lives and improve their recovery.
In the UK, hundreds of thousands of patients are treated in Emergency Departments, Trauma and Critical Care Units each year. Research to improve the outcomes for patients who need urgent treatments is a key priority for the NHS. With ever increasing pressure on NHS resources, there is also a need to make sure that all new treatments are cost effective as well.
Building on the internationally recognised research of both University Departments, the world-renowned patient care at the John Radcliffe Hospital and generous funding support from the Kadoorie Charitable Foundation, the new Institute brings together research across trauma, emergency care, and critical care. The Institute will design and test innovative treatments and care pathways that improve patient outcomes and deliver more efficient healthcare. By combining resources and expertise across all three specialties, the Institute will accelerate this research.
Based within the John Radcliffe Hospital, the centre of urgent care in Oxford, the Institute sits jointly within NDORMS and NDCN. While the Institute's research work will continue to inform best practice and health policy in the UK through bodies such as the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), it will also grow its ever more impactful global research programme. The Institute will also continue to deliver education for both researchers and health professionals working in trauma, emergency and critical care in Oxford, the UK and globally.