Elaine Strachan-Hall
Director of Nursing and Clinical Leadership

What I really enjoy about my job is being able to get involved in almost anything: I have a responsibility for quality, and that means I will take time to walk around the wards, talk to patients, ask them about how we're managing preventing infection or how we are managing their dignity or their privacy, and what I like about it is being able to be involved, but also to take those issues away and make a difference.

Zoe Pooley
Ward Sister, Children's Hospital, Oxford

Oxford Children's Hospital takes patients from the Oxford area for many many reasons but we have many specialties that require us to take patients from a huge wider area, Milton Keynes, Reading, Swindon and the surrounding areas and some much further afield than that.

Karen Campbell
Associate Director of  Nursing

I think the wonderful thing about nursing is you get so many opportunities to look at various parts of patient care and patient experience, so it's from working at the bedside, to managing finance, to looking at research papers, to teaching, so there's a huge variety within the field of nursing.

Richard Turner
Consultant Dermatologist

The email advice line was something which we set up 10 years ago, I very much wanted to open up dialogue with my colleagues in primary care, effectively what we did was we offered them an email address where they could contact us directly, we would attempt to respond with 24/48 hours, sometimes with advice on how to manage their patients, sometimes with just diagnosis, or sometimes offering them a speedier way of accessing our service.

Paul Johnson
Director of Islet Transplant Programme

This state-of-the-art facility is the only one of its type in this country and one of the few in Europe, and it has been made possible by this very close partnership between  the University of Oxford, the ORH NHS Trust and also our grant bodies and charity bodies that have enabled us to put this together.

Alastair Buchan
Stroke Specialist

What we're really trying to do now is to harness the power of academic research, academic training, academic talent, to bring it right into the core of the NHS.

Ashok Handa
Consultant Vascular Surgeon

Today is really rewarding because I'll be doing a fair bit of surgery which is high volume but fairly intermediate surgery, so it is not too complicated but it also allows me to teach and train surgeons in training, but at the same time teach someone else to do it hopefully as well as I do.

Richard Kerr
Consultant Neurosurgeon

We have a very general remit here, not only to look after the local population but people travelling often many many miles, so that makes this an incredibly dynamic place to be, not only for treating patients but also to get involved in other aspects of medical care.

Linda Allan
Senior Midwife, Spires Centre Midwifery-led Unit

Women have a choice as to where they go, whether they want to have a baby at home or in a birthing unit in the community or here at the John Radcliffe, that's why this is the new concept, we're offering an integrated service here.

Elaine Strachan-Hall

What's great, and why I actually came to work here, is it has the whole spectrum of services, from the very start of life, in fertility, to the end of life, at some of the most vulnerable times of their lives, and actually doing that well, and that's what I like about working here.

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