Research and development

Research and development at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas hosts many types of mental health, learning disability and community health services-based research, and is an active member of the London (South) Comprehensive Local Research Network, the South London Mental Health Research Network and the Dementias and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Network.

The trust is committed to supporting research that offers the opportunity for our service users and carers to access novel and innovative treatments and which also contribute to the continued development of our health and social care services and the NHS as a whole.

If you are a service user, carer, student or health and social care researcher from academia, industry or the NHS and require further information on any aspect of undertaking research within the trust, including research passports, research governance procedures, the process of ethical review and approval, and how to obtain NHS Permission for your study, please contact anthony.davis@oxleas.nhs.uk.  

You can also find a range of useful documents and websites below:

Research and Development Operational Capability Statement (RDOCS)
Detailed information on the types of research that Oxleas is able to host.

Service Users in Research
An initiative of the Mental Health Research Network (MHRN) to encourage service users and carers to become involved in mental health research studies.

UK Clinical Trials Gateway
A database maintained by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) that is designed for users and carers to find details of clinical research trials running in the UK.