From 8 June 2022, the guidance around wearing face masks at OUH has changed.
Patients must wear masks in the following areas and under certain conditions:
- If you have symptoms of COVID-19, or have tested positive for COVID-19
- If you have symptoms of a respiratory illness
- In areas where more vulnerable patients are being treated, for example Oncology and Haematology.
You do not have to wear masks in other areas, but we encourage you to do so and will support you if that is your choice.
Visitors must wear masks in areas where more vulnerable patients are being treated, and we encourage visitors in our Emergency Departments and Outpatient Departments to wear masks too.
Professor Meghana Pandit, Chief Medical Officer at OUH, said: “We will keep this updated guidance under review. This is just one step towards learning to live with COVID-19 – however we still have a duty of care to our patients and staff and so will keep a watchful eye.
“We will continue to support our patients and their visitors to wear face masks in all areas of our hospitals if that is their preference, and mask dispensers will remain in place in the various entrances to our hospitals.”
Please continue to clean your hands on entering any of our facilities and as often as possible using soap and water or hand sanitiser.
Please do not visit our hospitals if you have flu-like symptoms, COVID-19 symptoms, currently have or had diarrhoea and vomiting in the past 48 hours, have been in contact with anyone with the above symptoms in the last 48 hours, or have an existing medical condition or are on medication that puts you at risk of infection.
Thank you for supporting us by doing your part in keeping our hospitals and communities safe.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is one of the largest acute teaching trusts in the UK, with a national and international reputation for the excellence of its services and its role in patient care, teaching and research.
The Trust supports world-leading research programmes in cardiovascular diseases, musculoskeletal disorders, neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s through its designation as one of the UK’s five comprehensive biomedical centres. It works in close partnership with the University of Oxford and is a leading centre for cancer, neurosciences, diabetes, genetics and many other fields. Research themes of particular strength are: cancer, cardiovascular science, diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism, infection and immunology, musculoskeletal science, neuroscience and reproduction and development.
This brings together academic research expertise with clinical teams to translate medical science into better healthcare treatments. Our patients benefit from world-class discovery and innovation supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, a partnership between the Trust and the University of Oxford, funded by the National Institute for Health Research.
The Trust employs over 12,000 staff and consists of four hospitals: the Churchill Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. On 1 October 2015 the Trust was awarded Foundation status and became Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
