Kadoorie Institute for Trauma, Emergency and Critical Care
The Kadoorie Institute designs and tests innovative treatments and care pathways that improve patient outcomes and deliver more efficient healthcare. By combining resources and expertise across Trauma, Emergency and Critical Care, the Institute accelerates this research.
Trauma, Emergency, and Critical Care are among the most significant challenges facing patients, and healthcare systems worldwide. The three specialty areas are bound together by a need for speed - 'urgent' interventions to save patients' lives and improve their recovery.
In the UK, hundreds of thousands of patients are treated in Emergency Departments, Trauma and Critical Care Units each year. Research to improve the outcomes for patients who need urgent treatments is a key priority for the NHS. With ever increasing pressure on NHS resources, there is also a need to make sure that all new treatments are cost effective as well.
Building on the internationally recognised research of two University of Oxford departments (NDORMS and NDCN), the world-renowned patient care at the John Radcliffe Hospital, and generous funding support from the Kadoorie Charitable Foundation, the Kadoorie Institute brings together research across trauma, emergency care, and critical care.
Based within the John Radcliffe Hospital, the centre of urgent care in Oxford, the Institute sits jointly within NDORMS and NDCN.
The Institute's research work informs best practice and health policy in the UK through bodies such as the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
The Institute also delivers education for both researchers and health professionals working in trauma, emergency and critical care in Oxford, the UK and globally.