New Health Systems Safety PGCert & PGDip recruiting soon!
11 Aug, 2026
The new Health Systems Safety PGCert & PGDip is recruiting soon! Click here to find out more.
38th Congress of the Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine June 2026
27 Jul, 2026
38th congress of the Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (SSAI) Congress June 2026 // Reykjavík, Iceland
Read: Strengthening Antimicrobial Stewardship Through Systems Design
3 Mar, 2026
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the defining safety challenges of modern healthcare. While antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programmes are now embedded across health systems, sustaining impact remains difficult. This blog explores how OxSTaR research focuses on strengthening AMS.
Watch: Designing healthcare for clinician wellbeing and patient safety
13 Feb, 2026
This Oxford Open Grand Round explores the relationship between clinician wellbeing and workplace design, and how both influence engagement and patient safety.
Read: The latent system factors that influence antimicrobial use and governance in healthcare: a scoping review of high-income health systems
4 Feb, 2026
This paper authored by Olivia Lounsbury, Marta Ortega Vega, Lauren Hookham, Jane O'Hara, Natalie Sanford, Kelly Williams et al. examines how systems approaches have been applied to the use and governance of antimicrobials.
READ: Designing better systems to navigate the sepsis–antimicrobial stewardship tension
4 Feb, 2026
This new paper, authored by Olivia Lounsbury MS, Jane O'Hara PhD, Prof Andrew J Brent FRCP, Helen Higham DPhil, explores how system factors, such as people, environments, tools, technologies, and tasks, influence the sepsis–antimicrobial stewardship tension.
New GP Quick Reference Handbook
30 Jan, 2026
We’re delighted to share our BJGP Open paper from OxSTaR and collaborators, describing the design and implementation of a GP Quick Reference Handbook (GP-QRH) to support safer management of emergencies in general practice.
Read: The use of healthcare simulation to identify and address latent safety threats: a scoping review
5 Dec, 2025
A new review "explores how healthcare simulations have been used to identify and address LSTs (latent safety threats), with particular attention to the visibility and application of systems theory in study design, implementation, and analysis."
Interview: In Conversation with Helen Higham
22 Sep, 2025
Read: an interview with Helen Higham regarding the Frederic Hewitt Lectureship; her clinical, educational and research career; and OxSTaR
New Patient Safety Courses available to book now!
10 Jul, 2025
Quality Improvement Project wins best poster
8 Jan, 2025
The London Protocol
19 Nov, 2024
Virtual Reality Simulation for Medical Educators
28 Aug, 2024
Patient Safety Commissioner for England visits our simulation centre
19 Feb, 2024
Dr Henrietta Hughes, the Patient Safety Commissioner for England, visited the Oxford Simulation, Teaching and Research Centre (OxSTaR) at the John Radcliffe Hospital on Friday 16 February.
OxSTaR host 2023 Neuroscience Experience Students
18 Dec, 2023
OxSTaR Team wins national teaching award
20 Nov, 2023
OxSTaR wins Major Educator Award
14 Oct, 2021
The award from the Medical Science Division is in recognition of our work during the COVID-19 pandemic.