{"id":6,"date":"2021-09-16T14:39:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T13:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oscw\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-03-13T14:48:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:48:37","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oxcswell\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to OxCSWell"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Our vision<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>This vision &#8220;will inform the next stage of my spiritual care and contribute to and inspire my practice.&#8221; &#8212; senior nurse<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The vision for the Oxford Centre for Spirituality and Wellbeing (OxCSWell) is for the development of evidence-based, compassionate and holistic care which encourages addressing not only the symptoms of a person&#8217;s illness but working with each person as a whole, offering compassionate and respectful care which includes awareness of their spiritual and religious needs and how to work with them.<\/p>\n<p>This vision is undergirded by research, training and supporting NHS and social care staff.<\/p>\n<h2>Our approach<\/h2>\n<p>We focus on the development and dissemination of an integrated and holistic model of care. Our purpose is to generate practice-based evidence of the benefits of an integrated approach to care. The evidence will underpin the development of training for staff, to equip and support them to provide spiritual care as a necessary dimension of person-centred holistic care.<\/p>\n<h2>Our research<\/h2>\n<p>Research among both mental health and community health care patients\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">(1)<\/span> has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Produced significant evidence that spirituality in the form of psychospiritual care can be a source of support, inspiration, hope and recovery.<\/li>\n<li>Provided evidence which suggests that, whilst there is a developing interest in the UK and elsewhere to incorporate spiritual understandings within health care practice, in reality there is a significant gap between theory and practice.\u00a0 It is this gap that our ongoing work aims to address.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">(1) <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\"><em>National Spirituality\u00a0 and Mental Health\u00a0 Forum <\/em>(2011);\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Knowing our own Minds\u00a0 <\/em>(1997) ; <em>Strategies\u00a0 for Living\u00a0 <\/em>(2000);\u00a0 <em>Somerset\u00a0 Spirituality\u00a0 Project <\/em>(2002);\u00a0 <em>One\u00a0 Chance\u00a0 to Get\u00a0 it<\/em> <em>Right\u2019 End of Life Care Strategy <\/em>\u00a0(2014).<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"nhsuk-action-link\"><a class=\"nhsuk-action-link__link\" href=\"\/oxcswell\/about\/\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"nhsuk-action-link__text\">Learn more<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our vision This vision &#8220;will inform the next stage of my spiritual care and contribute to and inspire my practice.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":773,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-homepage.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oxcswell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oxcswell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oxcswell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oxcswell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oxcswell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oxcswell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oxcswell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oxcswell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oxcswell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}