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Award winners revealed at staff celebration
Our Recognition Awards 2025 was an afternoon to remember – a time to celebrate and recognise outstanding achievement from the past year.
Read Award winners revealed at staff celebration…New community boxing gym packs a punch for mental health
In a UK first, the country’s inaugural boxing gym inside an NHS facility is now open - thanks to a vision by Oxleas.
Read New community boxing gym packs a punch for mental health…New conference suite named in honour of Francis Adzinku
New conference facility opened in memory of colleague, Francis Adkinku
Read New conference suite named in honour of Francis Adzinku…Simulation Centre open for business!
We've done it! We now officially have a simulation centre to call our own!
Read Simulation Centre open for business!…Resident doctor industrial action
Resident doctors in England will be taking industrial action from 7am on Friday 14 November to 7am on Wednesday 19 November.
Read Resident doctor industrial action…Meet Warren: an occupational therapist on a mission
To mark Occupational Therapy Week, we meet Warren Dunkley, an Occupational Therapist at Oxleas NHS for 20 years and former professional boxer, who has spent the past 12 years working with patients facing severe and enduring mental illness.
Read Meet Warren: an occupational therapist on a mission…Join our Board of Directors’ meeting online
Join our next Board of Directors' meeting on Thursday 6 November 2025.
Read Join our Board of Directors’ meeting online…Revealed! Our 2025 Recognition Awards shortlist
Which teams and individuals have made it onto our shortlist for this year's Recognition Awards 2025? Find out here.
Read Revealed! Our 2025 Recognition Awards shortlist…Working together to improve the health of local people
Oxleas was delighted to be part of the South London Listens Health Justice Assembly uniting the communities of South London with health and local authority colleagues to work together to improve the health of local people.
Read Working together to improve the health of local people…Media enquiries
The communications team provides a point of contact for journalists to respond to all media enquiries.
We are happy to help journalists represent the trust accurately, so please do get in touch to ensure your facts and information are up-to-date before publishing your story.
Our media team is responsible for:
- Responding to media queries
- Arranging interviews with our nationally and internationally renowned experts who can talk about some of the trust’s specialist topics
For all media enquiries Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, please email oxl-tr.communications@nhs.net where a member of the team will review and action your request.
If you have an urgent enquiry outside of office hours or at the weekend, please contact our director on call via the Bracton Centre switchboard on 01322 294300.
Filming and photography requests
We receive documentary, location and broadcast filming requests on a regular basis – we consider all proposals on an individual basis and will try to accommodate proposals where possible, if appropriate.
No photography or filming is permitted without prior arrangement and agreement. Our patients always come first and we have a duty to protect their safety and confidentiality. Anyone found filming or taking photographs on the trust premises without the permission of the trust’s communications team will be asked to leave by the security department and may face prosecution.
Unless agreed otherwise, film crews and photographers must be accompanied by a member of the Communications Team at all times.
Contact: oxl-tr.communications@nhs.net
