3.12. OUH is a recruiting site for 267/313 (85%) of the studies approved to start recruitment in 2025-26. For a further 4%, OUH was a Participant Identification Centre (PIC), identifying potential research participants to be recruited at a separate research site. For an additional 5% OUH was a service site, providing services such as laboratory analysis or imaging for studies recruiting outside of OUH, including University of Oxford healthy volunteer vaccine studies. Over time, in line with Government ‘shift’ for the NHS to move from hospital-centric care to integrated, community-based care, a greater proportion of research