Our next steps – Oxford Health’s new Strategy 26-31

Oxford Health’s current strategy comes to end in 2026, giving us an important opportunity to shape our new strategy for the next five years.

Please fill in our strategy survey and make sure the future strategy genuinely reflects what will make the biggest difference for our patients, carers, families, our local communities and colleagues.

If you are a patient, family member, carer or from one of our local communities click here to fill in a survey.
If you are from an partner organisation that works with Oxford Health please click here to fill in a survey.

Let’s talk about what matters most to you

In autumn 2025, we asked patients, families, carers and local communities about their experiences of care. You told us what felt positive and what could be improved — such as being listened to, getting help sooner, clearer information, more joined‑up care, and support closer to home. This feedback has helped us shape the early ideas for our next five‑year strategy.

Since then, we have brought all of this insight together with discussions at our Board to develop a simple draft strategy— including the draft aims and priorities we think will make the biggest difference for patients, families and carers and local communities.

What this survey is about

In this second phase of engagement, we want to understand whether the draft aims and priorities we have developed — based on what you told us and Board conversations — feel right to you. To help guide your feedback, we are sharing a one‑page overview of our draft strategic framework to give you a high-level view of our draft strategy.

 

Vision, purpose, values

Our draft strategy has a proposed vision, purpose and values that describe the kind of organisation we want to be and the culture we want to create. They shape how we work, the expectations we hold for ourselves, and the experience we want colleagues, patients, partners and our local communities to have with Oxford Health. Following Phase 1 engagement, we have updated our vision and added a purpose to reflect what people told us matters most to know about our future direction.

Our draft strategy also contains our organisational values of ‘caring, safe and excellent’. These are our existing values and during Phase 1 colleagues, patients and partners told us that they felt these values represent Oxford Health well; the values will therefore remain the same and are not included in this engagement.

Aims and priorities

Our draft strategy is built around three high‑level aims which describe the outcomes we want to achieve over the next five years that will bring us closer to our proposed vision. These aims are about patients, carers and families, communities and populations’ health and our people. The draft strategy also sets out six priorities that describe how we want to focus efforts to make change happen over the next five years.

Strategic foundations

As an NHS Trust, we have a number of key functions we carry out to be an effective and well managed organisation. These functions we describe in our draft strategy as ‘strategic foundations’. These important functions each have their own approach to engagement that sits with it. We therefore do not intend to ask specific questions about our strategic foundations in this engagement, but any information you share in your responses will inform our thinking about all aspects of our strategy.

What we would like to know from you

As part of Phase 2 engagement, we want to understand whether our aims and priorities are the right ones. In this survey, we explain why we have chosen each of the aims and priorities and we ask for your views on them. If you share views with us about other elements of the strategy, we will incorporate this in our thinking.

Your feedback will help us refine these so they genuinely reflect what will make the biggest difference for patients, carers, families, our local communities and colleagues. This survey should take around 5 mins to complete and all questions are optional.