Murray House is a new NHS health hub for community physical health teams that has recently opened in North Oxford. The hub, located on the Jordan Hill Business Park, will provide a range of medical services such as podiatry, children and adult specialist therapy, and specialist dental services. The district nursing teams will also be located in Murray house.
Many of the health services working from the hub, including district nurses, will have visiting teams that will be able to travel to people’s homes to provide care. Services for specific health needs like dental and podiatry care will run clinics onsite.
The location will have improved public transportation links to facilitate higher accessibility of the clinics. This will include a close proximity to the Oxford Parkway Park & Ride and a range of bus stops.
According to Oxford NHS Foundation Trust, Murray House has recently “undergone a full refurbishment to meet the needs of modern health services”. The ground floor includes a “well-organised” waiting area, toilets, and vending machines, which will be coming soon.
Murray House will be one of three health hubs in Oxford; the other two will cover the centre (East Oxford Health Centre on Manzil Way) and the south of the city, for which the location is yet to be determined. The buildings in Jericho and Summertown that previously housed the provided services will be sold.
Peter Gibson from Oxford NHS Foundation Trust said the new hub will improve recruitment and retention of the staff: “Our teams, sitting together, can actually start to talk to each in a way they just didn’t before because they were located in different parts of the city.”
Gibson also described Murray House as “a much, much better facility [and] easier for people to get to, with much better public transport links.”
The hub began to provide care for patients from 5th May, as most of the staff had moved in by the end of April. An official opening ceremony for Murray House is also set to take place later this year.
