New studies approved to start recruitment

3.11. Figure 4 below shows the trend in the number of new studies approved to start recruitment at OUH each quarter.

Figure 4. New studies opened to start recruitment, by quarter

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

Data sourced from Studyline 16-May-2025

Research & Development Governance and Performance Report 2025-26