News archive

A new dawn for mental health inpatient care in Oxfordshire

4 December 2025

Britta Klinck, Chief Nurse for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, discusses how the new mental health hospital will have an enormously positive impact on the quality of mental health care for people living in Oxfordshire.


Building a new mental health hospital with patient experience at its heart

4 December 2025

Warneford Park’s Clinical Lead (Nursing), Samantha Robinson, explains how the design of the new hospital can enhance patient experience and support recovery.


Warneford Park ‘a critical turning point’ for brain and mental health research – Professor Belinda Lennox

4 December 2025

Head of the Department of Psychiatry at The University of Oxford, Professor Belinda Lennox, has described Warneford Park as a ‘critical turning point’ for brain and mental health research.


Inspiring experiences: using the patient voice to help shape our plans

24 October 2025

Aideen-Niamh O’Neill, who is the Experience and Involvement Facilitator and Expert By Experience for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, reflects on her personal experience of Warneford Hospital and how she and others have been helping to shape plans for the proposed new hospital.


Warneford Park will be a game-changer for mental health care in Oxfordshire and beyond

24 September 2025

Dr Karl Marlowe, Consultant Psychiatrist and Chief Medical Officer for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust writes about the Warneford Park programme.


Our plans for traffic and transport

24 September 2025

An overview of our approach to on-site car parking and travel for Warneford Park.


Planning application submitted for a major mental health and medical research campus in Oxford

23 August 2025

Plans to transform the Warneford Hospital site in Headington into a major mental health and medical research campus have been submitted to Oxford City Council by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.


Second pre-planning application consultation launched

29 October 2024

On behalf of Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Oxford and a partner, we would like to invite you to our second phase of pre-planning application, public consultation events for Warneford Park. 


University of Oxford team secures major grant to investigate Bipolar Disorder

26 September 2024

A team led by Paul Harrison in the Department of Psychiatry has been awarded a BD²: Breakthrough Discoveries grant to look at the role of voltage-gated calcium channels in Bipolar Disorder.


Webinar on Warneford Park plans

23 September 2024

We have ambitious plans to develop a major brain health research and innovation campus at the existing Warneford Hospital site.