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Media reports of what OXFO and our ventures were doing to respond to the pandemic reached a potential global audience of over 300 million
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The Oxford Foundry has featured in the press 36 times since March 2020, and the ventures over 60 times. Examples include: The Times
23 November 2020 Oxwash, the ‘Ocado of laundry’, ready to take its chance to clean up
The Hill: Changing America
22 October 2020 How the COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented innovation
The Times
5 October 2020 Starting a business is easier when you’re among friends
The Guardian
5 September 2020 'This isn't an outdated ivory tower': how Oxford university leapfrogged its rivals
The Sunday Times
16 August 2020 Campus start-ups cram for recovery
Poets & Quants
13 August 2020 Good news for Oxford on the job front as it prepares for a year unlike any other
The Guardian
28 July 2020 A third of schoolchildren identify as Black, Asian or minority ethnic yet fewer than 5% of children’s books feature BAME main characters
Sifted
20 July 2020 Today’s students want to become startup founders
Sifted
14 July 2020 Opinion: Our big university challenge
Express
8 July 2020 Novoic seeks a million volunteers to cough up and help curb Covid-19
TechTribe
6 July 2020 App designed by caregivers combats loneliness in care homes
The Grocer
26 June 2020 How to make supermarket shopping feel safer and more normal The Evolving Enterprise 17 June 2020 Oxford Foundry selects innovations for COVID-19 recovery
MedTech Innovation
16 June 2020 Oxford Foundry launches £120k grant fund for start-ups responding to COVID-19
Mobile Marketing magazine
15 June 2020 Oxford Foundry grants £120,000 to startups aiding economic recovery
Design Products and Innovation
10 June 2020 Oxford Foundry launches four new innovations for COVID-19 recovery Design Products and Innovation
BBC South TV news
4 June 2020 The Oxford Foundry and Crowdless app support Covid-19 recovery
The Telegraph
4 May 2020 Twitter Co-founder invests in laundry start-up's £1.4m funding round
BBC
21 April 2020 Coronavirus: The tech minnows changing the NHS
MedTech Innovation
20 April 2020 Oxford Foundry launches two-part plan to accelerate COVID-19 solutions
DigitalHealth
3 April 2020 New digital service ‘to allow every UK GP surgery to offer remote consults’
Oxford Mail
1 April 2020 Oxwash Oxford laundry service helps the NHS
Metro
1 April 2020 'I created vital tech for the NHS and I’m giving it away for free'
Professor Louise Richardson, ViceChancellor, University of Oxford speaking in The Guardian. The University of Oxford topped The Guardian’s rankings for the first time in a decade. The Oxford Foundry is highlighted as a key contributor.
01.OXFO Covid-19 Action Plan: Scaling ventures responding to the pandemic
Pandemic accelerates development and adoption of new remote consultation tool
Face-to-face meetings with GPs and hospital doctors have been severely limited by Covid-19 restrictions, but over 10 million patients across the UK have been able to access consultations via video or phone call, through Nye Health’s remote consultation tool.
The digital health startup, one of OXFO’s portfolio ventures, accelerated the build and roll-out of their Nye Phone service as soon as the pandemic hit. Within six weeks, initially operating an emergency response team out of the Oxford Foundry building on Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford, it was up and running, free for the NHS to use, and helping UK GPs care for their patients remotely. The Nye Phone is a browser-based phone and video call system that is fully encrypted and compliant with NHS Digital standards. It means that any clinician can call any patient from anywhere, while at the same time accessing all necessary records, systems and databases. The line is high-quality, comes from a land-line number, and is totally secure; all patients’ data and insights are kept within the NHS. The service has enabled doctors to work remotely during lockdown and free-up capacity as restrictions have started to ease, triaging patients so that more urgent cases are prioritised for face-to-face appointments. Examples of OXFO Taskforce and wider support include Mohamed Amersi putting Nye in contact with the Department of Health and Social Care; Claire Davenport, CEO of notonthehighstreet.com, provided mentorship and leadership support, and Marc Abraham, Head of Product Engagement at Asos, advised on product development and operations to help them scale quickly. Nye has now supported 1,000,000 minutes of patient care, raised £5.2m investment, £3.8m during the pandemic, and the team has grown to 12 members. During the pandemic, they were featured widely in the press, including the BBC and Express, and Cofounder and CEO Alexander Finlayson was voted an Everyday Hero in the Metro Awards. 'The rate of growth was unprecedented; keeping up with demand whilst ensuring everything continued to run smoothly certainly made for some late nights. Our whole team stepped up to the challenge, and it’ has been a turbo-charged learning process. And whilst there have been days where we’ve run on pure adrenaline, just knowing that we’re playing a role in the wider pandemic fight has been the purest form of motivation imaginable,’ said Dr Finlayson.
Dr Alexander Finlayson, Cofounder & CEO, Nye Health
