A multi-disciplinary team delivers the service, including:

• GPs

• Nurses

• Paramedics

• Physiotherapists

• Administrative and operational staff

All work together to ensure safe, effective care during out-of-hours periods.

How is care delivered?

Bases

Abingdon OOH Abingdon Community Hospital 

Banbury OOH Fiennes Centre, Horton Hospital

Bicester OOH Bicester Community Hospital

Henley OOH Townlands Memorial Hospital

Oxford OOH East Oxford Health Centre

Witney OOH Witney Community Hospital 

Visiting service -weekends and BH

We have a team of home visiting cars across the county to support the urgent home visiting service.

Abingdon – 2 cars

Witney – 1 cars

Oxford -2 cars

Banbury – 2 cars

Each base has a GP and Emergency Practitioner visiting team. Home visiting is allocated to the most appropriate person dependant on work demand, locality and level of assessment required. 

Visiting service – overnight 

Overnight we have Emergency Practitioners and GPs supporting telephones, base and visiting. We also have Hospital @ Home support for End of Life and catheter patients.

The overnight teams cover countywide to support the urgent medical needs of patients.  

Assessment of suitability for this role

• Once the clinical leadership team have assessed your CV and availability to cover shifts, we

will direct your agency to organise a 30min video call via Microsoft TEAMs

• During the call we will confirm your suitability for the role during which you will be asked to

provide feedback on a clinical scenario that we will present to you.

• If you are assessed as suitable for this role, we will then contact your agency to proceed with

booking you for shifts which will also include an induction with us.

Induction

• You should have an NHS smartcard that is working. If not, we will need to arrange one for

you which may delay your first session of work with us.

• Prior to your induction we will forward the following items to you directly or via your

employing agency

o OOH GP handbook (please be aware that this is being updated and in the near

future will become an online copy)

o E-learning for Adastra

o E-learning for electronic prescribing in Adastra

o Memorandum of Understanding – if this has not already been provided to you.

• Prior to your first session of work, we will also provide your Windows login details to our

trust computers and to Adastra.Assessment of suitability for this role

• Once the clinical leadership team have assessed your CV and availability to cover shifts, we

will direct your agency to organise a 30min video call via Microsoft TEAMs

• During the call we will confirm your suitability for the role during which you will be asked to

provide feedback on a clinical scenario that we will present to you.

• If you are assessed as suitable for this role, we will then contact your agency to proceed with

booking you for shifts which will also include an induction with us.

Induction

• You should have an NHS smartcard that is working. If not, we will need to arrange one for

you which may delay your first session of work with us.

• Prior to your induction we will forward the following items to you directly or via your

employing agency

o OOH GP handbook (please be aware that this is being updated and in the near

future will become an online copy)

o E-learning for Adastra

o E-learning for electronic prescribing in Adastra

o Memorandum of Understanding – if this has not already been provided to you.

• Prior to your first session of work, we will also provide your Windows login details to our

trust computers and to Adastra.