Health and wellbeing

West Oxfordshire District Council does not provide the main health services. NHS Oxfordshire is responsible for health services including GPs, community hospitals, Out of Hours GP services and Minor Injuries Units, for more information see:

NHS Oxfordshire website

For social care services contact:

Oxfordshire County Council's Access team
0845 050 7666

Hospitals

The three major hospitals in Oxfordshire are provided by the Oxfordshire Radcliffe Hospitals Trust:

Oxford University Hospitals website

Local Community hospitals in Chipping Norton and Witney are managed by Community Health Oxfordshire along with some local community services:

Community Health Oxfordshire

Our services

Here at West Oxfordshire District Council, we provide a number of services that protect health and enhance the wellbeing of our residents, for information see:

See our dedicated webpages for:

Leisure and tourism

Designed to promote residents health we provide a number of:

We also develop new creative opportunities to benefit local people:

Arts

The West Oxfordshire health and wellbeing strategy summarises our health related aims.

Changes to the health service

We are working with partners on the proposed changes to the health service. This includes the removal of Primary Care Trusts (NHS Oxfordshire) and Strategic Health Authorities, handing over responsibility for commissioning health services to GP Commissioning Consortia. In Oxfordshire, this will be an overarching county wide consortia with six geographically based sub groups.

Public health will become the responsibility of local authorities, primarily county councils, as will setting up of new Health & Wellbeing Boards. For patient involvement, the current LINKS service will become Healthwatch and take on a larger role.

For further information or to raise any issues, please ring us on 01993 861349. The Cabinet Member with responsibility for health is Cllr Mark Booty.

Have your say on local health issues

You can help to influence local health services through consultation via the LINk service:

LINk online or
0300 111 0102

Feedback experience as a patient via:

PALS service or
Freephone 0800 052 6088

Public health in Oxfordshire

The Public Health team in Oxfordshire produces an annual report which looks at some of the biggest health achievements in the year and also highlights the biggest health issues: