Dr Karl Marlowe, consultant psychiatrist and chief medical officer for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, shares his thoughts on plans for the Warneford Hospital site.

The Warneford Hospital site has a long and rich history of providing mental health care for the people of Oxfordshire.

Our plans to bring clinical care, research, and education into a single site will help transform care for generations to come.

In July, we submitted a planning application to Oxford City Council to transform the Warneford Hospital site in Headington into the most significant mental health and medical research campus in the UK.

I would like to explain why this is such an extraordinary opportunity.

Through our collaboration with the University of Oxford and a local benefactor, our plans would see the creation of brand-new facilities that will transform mental health care for patients in Oxfordshire, as well as support the advancement of medical research and mental health and brain science that will benefit patients from across the country and beyond.

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