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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.


Urgent action needed to understand links between air pollution and mental health

19 September 2024

Leading scientists are calling for urgent global action to better understand the links between air pollution and mental health.


Impact of social factors on suicide must be recognised, leading experts say

10 September 2024

The impact of social factors such as poverty and abuse on suicide need to be recognised and action taken to address them, according to a major series of papers published in the Lancet Public Health on World Suicide Prevention Day.


Have your say on Warneford Park plans

10 September 2024

Your views are really important to us. 


Warneford Park newsletter

29 August 2024

The first Warneford Park newsletter is now available. 


Music helps to highlight areas of brain affected by aging

29 August 2024

Older people are able to remember familiar pieces of music as well as young people – but some parts of their brain are having to work harder to do it, according to a new study.


Pre-planning application consultations launched

27 August 2024

In partnership with the University of Oxford and a partner, we want to develop a major brain health research and innovation campus on the existing Warneford Hospital site in Headington.


User centred design at the heart of Warneford Park plans

15 August 2024

The Warneford Hospital is the oldest inpatient unit still in use across the NHS. Although no longer fit for purpose, our staff continue to provide compassionate care in a Grade II listed building that hasn’t changed much from when it was built 200 years ago.