Share review of Bicester Community Hospital

Thank you for your feedback. Currently we are only commissioned to serve as a First Aid Unit (FAU) [which are not required to provide X ray facilities]. Although there are X ray facilities on site, these are only commissioned to be open for a limited number of hours 4 days a week for GPs to refer their patients into. The radiographers are provided by the Oxford University Hospital’s Trust. Patients identified by the FAU clinician as needing can be directly referred to our sister minor injury units at Witney, Abingdon or Henley for x rays. In the long term the hope is that Bicester will become either a Minor injuries unit or an urgent care treatment centre, both of which would offer X ray facilities with the services provided on site. Currently there is no suggestion that this is forthcoming imminently. The local clinical commissioning group would provide the decision on this in the future.