READ: The use of healthcare simulation to identify and address latent safety threats: a scoping review
5 December 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 September 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 July 2025
Quality Improvement Project wins best poster
8 January 2025
Simulation Technician Post
9 December 2024
The London Protocol
19 November 2024
Virtual Reality Simulation for Medical Educators
28 August 2024
Patient Safety Commissioner for England visits our simulation centre
19 February 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 December 2023
OxSTaR Team wins national teaching award
20 November 2023
OxSTaR Awarded Prestigious biennial Vice-Chancellor’s Education Award
29 September 2022
OxSTaR wins Major Educator Award
14 October 2021
The award from the Medical Science Division is in recognition of our work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
MAGIC highly commended at Patient Safety Awards 2021
28 September 2021
MAGIC was highly commended in the Primary Care Initiative of the Year category.
OxSTaR are finalists in three categories at the Patient Safety Awards 2021
1 July 2021
Three projects, STEP UP, SAFE and MAGIC, are finalists in the Patient Safety Awards 2021.
Patient Safety Awareness Week, 14-20 March 2021
16 March 2021
The week aims to encourage the community to learn more about healthcare safety. OxSTaR supports Patient Safety Awareness Week 2021.
Dr Sally Shiels wins a PGCert Portfolio Prize
8 March 2021
The prize is awarded annually to the participants who gain the highest mark for their teaching portfolio.
The Oxford Box has arrived
15 February 2021
We are very pleased to take delivery of adult and paediatric Oxford Boxes from Enovation Consulting Ltd and One Group Engineering.
OxSTaR's Hilary Edgcombe included in list of 100 incredible women
11 February 2021
The list is part of the Medical Sciences Division's celebration of 100 years of women's admittance to the University of Oxford.