2023-03-31-accounts

Trustees’ Annual Report for the period

From 1 April 2022 Period start date To 31 March 2023 Period end date

Charity name: Oxford Academic Health Partners

Charity registration number: 1174725

Objectives and Activities

Objectives and Activities
	SORP reference
Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document	Para 1.17	To advance health by research, clinical care, education and training to provide solutions so that clinical research breakthroughs lead to direct clinical benefits.
Summary of the main activities in relation to those purposes for the public benefit, in particular, the activities, projects or services identified in the accounts.	Para 1.17 and 1.19	OAHP will support its purpose through providing grant funding, and hosting function that fulfil its objectives and the provision of services.
Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit	Para 1.18	The Trustees confirm that they have not varied the constitution of the Charity and therefore as assessed by the Charity commission at formation, comply with PB1 of the Guidance. We also confirm that in preparing this report we have operated OAHP with due regard to Guidance PB2 ensuring that all steps taken to achieve public benefit have been for a charitable purpose. This reporting period, activity has been to secure modest funds and develop an approach to grant funding as detailed below, but we confirm that we have given due regard to Guidance PB3 in this matter.

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	SORP reference
Policy on grant making	Para 1.38	Grants and awards from OAHP will be provided and governed through grant conditions with the recipient accepting those conditions for management and reporting on activities supported through OAHP funds. Grant making is an accepted form of providing funds to support research and education, especiallyin the health and life sciences sector.

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		For this reason, the Trustees have chosen this as the route for distributing funds to achieve the aims of OAHP across its Partner organisations.
Policy on social investment including program related investment	Para 1.38	OAHP is not intending to use Social Investment as a route to achieve its goals.
Contribution made by volunteers	Para 1.38	OAHP is not using volunteers to undertake charitable activities.
Other

Achievements and Performance

	SORP reference
Summary of the main achievements of the charity, identifying the difference the charity’s work has made to the circumstances of its beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole.	Para 1.20	The key activity for the year ending 31 March 2023 was the implementation of the Research Development Award introduced to support the development of research capability, capacity, and clinical academic careers with a focus on the Partners’ nurses, midwives, Allied Health Professionals and Pharmacists and with an emphasis on research projects and courses, potential legacy, collaboration, and partnership working and further spread across OAHP. Research evidence drives improvements in the quality of care provided to patients and service users and can yield solutions to some of the day-to-day challenges of delivering high-quality health and care services. Research-active healthcare organisations tend to see better patient outcomes, report higher levels of patient experience, and have better staff recruitment and retention compared with those who are less research active. Across England, the culture and support to include allied health professionals and other frontline workers in clinical research programmes is lacking. The Research Development Award Scheme takes steps to address this, supporting the development of a research culture that is inclusive of all professionals and patients. The scheme is part of OAHP’s ongoing strategy of championing research literacy across the clinical and allied health disciplines,to helpbuild and maintain the foundations for

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robust, interdisciplinary health and care research. The initial sum available from the OAHP was £50,000 and this pot was increased to £72,5000 with contributions from NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre making the total amount significant. The generosity of the two BRCs is acknowledged as is the contribution (in kind) from the NIHR Oxford and Thames Valley Applied Research Collaboration. Applications were invited on 22 May 2022 and the process closed on 22 July 2022. All 50 applications were acknowledged and individuals kept updated on the process to date. The judging panel, made up senior healthcare professionals, researchers and academics from across the Partners, met on 15 August 2022 and used several criteria in the selection of 26 Awards covering 19 professional groups from four of the OAHP partners. The Awards were ratified by the Board of the Oxford Academic Health Partners at its meeting on 26 August 2022. An update on the Awards is available here The nature of the awards ranged from funding for a MSc in Leadership in Health and Social Care at the University of Derby for OUH Hand Therapist Zoe Miles, funding support for a shortterm (three month) collaborative research project between Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and the Centre for Suicide Research University of Oxford that focused on suicide and selfharm in nurses. The work was completed and published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing in August 2023 as “Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours amongst student nurses and midwives”. Other awards included funds to support Amanda Colston, Senior Research Nurse and Team Lead in the Mental Health Clinical Research facility, Oxford Health NHS FT and the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre continue her studies at Cardiff University and is undertaking a systematic review of the aftercare needed for patients who receive genetic results as part of a clinical trial. The interest from a very wide range of individuals from all OAHP Partners was strong and the spread across the organisations was appropriate. The Judging Panel highlighted the overall strong nature of the applications. The Award is regarded as both the means of improving research capacity and capability across the Partners in support of individuals’ learning and development of clinical academic careers and a highly successful means of raising the profile of the Charity, O AHP and its Partners. Reports are being received on the impact of the Awards made particularly in relation to the development of research capability and capacity as a means of personal and professional development and developments in the care of patients and their families.

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The Award was highlighted in one of the case studies submitted to NIHR in July 2023 in support of the OAHP Annual Report for 2022/2023. An extract is given below: “This knowledge and insight gained by completing my first year of doctorate of nursing, not only transformed my understanding of nursing as a discipline, as an art form and science, but also transformed my clinical practice which directly affects my decisions relating to patient care and the quality of care.” Advanced Nurse Practitioner. “The focus of my PhD is the investigation of the experiences of patients living with musculoskeletal impairments following critical illness, and to inform the development of a complex intervention.” Critical Care Physiotherapist ICU Work in the development of clinical academic careers for nonmedical healthcare professionals continues across individual Partners with the strong support of the Oxford Academic Health Partners Board and team. All payments made by the Charity relate to the Awards apart from the regular bank charges made by HSBC. Four Awards from the previous financial year were also made during the year completing the 21/22 Charity Awards. One Awardee from 2021/22, a Consultant in Palliative Care, said “Thank you for the substantial grant of £1500 toward attending the conference and understanding palliative care practice in Quebec province. The conference was of excellent quality ……. I have worked as a specialist in palliative medicine for 25 years and in the field for 30 years and it is rare to learn from almost every speaker. This conference provided that opportunity.”

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Achievements against objectives set	Para 1.41	n/a
Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set	Para 1.41	n/a
Investment performance against objectives	Para 1.41	n/a
Other		**n/a **

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Financial Review

Financial Review
Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period	Para 1.21	The year end position is strong with funds available to complete the payment of funds to Awardees.
Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why theyare held	Para 1.22	n/a
Amount of reserves held	Para 1.22	**n/a **
Reasons for holding zero reserves	Para 1.22	n/a
Details of fund materially in deficit	Para 1.24	n/a
Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuingas agoingconcern	Para 1.23	n/a

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The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising)	Para 1.47	Contributions from the Partners and other associated bodies including NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre and NIHR Applied Research Collaborative Oxford and Thames Valley.
Investment policy and objectives including any social investmentpolicyadopted	Para 1.46	n/a
A description of the principal risks facingthe charity	Para 1.46	n/a
Other		n/a

Structure, Governance and Management

Description of charity’s trusts:
Type of governing document (trust deed,royal charter)	Para 1.25	Constitution
How is the charity constituted? (e.g. unincorporated association,CIO)	Para 1.25	CIO
Trustee selection methods including details of any constitutional provisions e.g. election to post or name of any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees	Para 1.25	The five Trustees are fixed as they are corporate Trustee and there are no plans to expand the group. The Trustee do however appoint representatives to help in the day to day running of the CIO in accordance with its constitution. These were selected and agreed by the Board of Trustees at a board meeting in 2017. In effect the Board of the Oxford Academic Health Partners act in this way.

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Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees	Para 1.51	n/a
The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works	Para 1.51	n/a
Relationship with any related parties	Para 1.51	n/a
Other		**n/a **

Reference and Administrative details

Charityname	Oxford Academic Health Partners
Other name the charityuses
Registered charitynumber	1174724
Charity’s principal address	c/o Joint Research Office, OUH Cowley Floor 2 Unipart House, Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2PG

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 1 2 3	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)
	Dr Bruno Holthof	CEO, Oxford University Hospitals, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DU	To 30 June 2022	Oxford University Hospitals NHS FT
	Professor Meghana Pandit	CEO, Oxford University Hospitals, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DU	From 1 July 2022 (interim) and 1 February 2023 (permanent)	Oxford University Hospitals NHS FT
	Dr Nick Broughton	CEO, Oxford Health NHS FT Warneford Hospital Warneford Lane Headington Oxford OX3 7JX		Oxford Health NHS FT
	Professor Gavin Screaton	Head of Medical Sciences Division, Level 3, The John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Headington Oxford OX3 9DU		University of Oxford

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4 5 6	Professor Linda King	Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research and Global Partnerships Oxford Brookes University, Headington Rd, Oxford OX3 0BP		Oxford Brookes University
	Professor Sir John Bell	Chair of OAHP Board and Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford, Old Road, Oxford
	Professor Gary Ford	CEO, Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley		Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley

Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved

Director name
Professor Meghana Pandit	OUH NHS FT
Dr Karl Marlowe	OH NHS FT	Previously Dr Nick Broughton to 30 June 2023
Professor Gavin Screaton	University of Oxford
Professor Linda King	Oxford Brookes University
Professor Gary Ford	Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley	Formerly Oxford Academic Health Science Network
OAHP
Professor John Bell	Chairman OAHP Board
Megan Turmezei	SecretaryOAHP Board

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity NONE

Trustee name	Dates acted if not for whole year

Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others

Description of the assets held in this capacity	n/a
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects	n/a
Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets	n/a

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

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Type of Name Address adviser

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Exemptions from disclosure

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details

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Declarations

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

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Signature(s)
Full name(s) Professor Sir John Bell Megan Turmezei
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Date 25 January 2024 25 January 2024
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	Oxford Academic Health Partners	Oxford Academic Health Partners	Oxford Academic Health Partners	1174725	1174725	1174725	CC16a
	For the period from	01/04/2022 Period start date	To		31/03/2023 Period end date
Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 7,500 98 15,000 - - 22,598 - - - 22,598 56,830 60 - 56,890 - - - 56,890 - 34,292 - 55,763 21,471	Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -		Total funds to the nearest £ 7,500 98 15,000 - - 22,598 - - - 22,598 56,830 60 - 56,890 - - - 56,890 - 34,292		Last year to the nearest £
Contribution from Oxford Health BRC	7,500						40,000
refund from Universityof Oxford	98						-
Contribution from Oxford BRC	15,000						-
	-						-
	-						-
Sub total(Gross income for AR)	22,598						40,000
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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Sub total	-						-
Total receipts A3 Payments
							40,000
CharityAwards	56,830						-
Bank charges	60						-
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**Sub total **	56,890						-
A4 Asset and investment purchases (see table)
,	-
	-
**Sub total **	-						-
Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end
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	- 34,292	-	-		- 34,292		40,000
	-	-	-		-		-
	55,763	-	-		55,763		-
	21,471	-	-		21,471		40,000

CC1174725 R1 accounts (SS)

25/01/2024

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at	the end of the period	the end of the period
Categories B5 Liabilities Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees Professor Sir John Bell Megan Turmezei Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details Details B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use balance at year end B1 Cash funds Details Details Signature	Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details Details balance at year end Details Details	Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 21,471 - 21,471 OK Unrestricted funds to nearest £ Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which liability relates	Restricted funds to nearest £ - - - OK Restricted funds to nearest £ Cost (optional) Cost (optional) - - Amount due (optional) -	Endowment funds to nearest £
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				OK
				Endowment funds to nearest £ Current value (optional) Current value (optional)
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	Signature	Print Name		Date of approval
		John Bell Megan Turmezei		25-Jan-24 25-Jan-24

CC1174725 R2 accounts (SS)

25/01/2024

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