Specialist Healthcare Research Expertise, When You Need It.

Oxsim provides focused qualitative research expertise to help healthcare organisations, research teams and life sciences partners answer complex human-centred questions. Whether supporting a specific stage or guiding a study from design through analysis, we bring rigorous methods, thoughtful insight and specialist support tailored to your research needs.

ABOUT OXSIM

Qualitative Research at the Heart of Healthcare Innovation

Oxsim Health Research was founded to make high-quality, patient-centred research more accessible — without the burden of a full-time hire.

I am Dr Simon Fletcher, the founder and sole consultant at Oxsim. I am a registered nurse, qualitative researcher, and published academic with more than three decades of clinical and research experience across the NHS, university, and independent sectors.

Working as a sole trader, I partner directly with pharmaceutical companies, patient organisations, academic institutions, NHS trusts, and other research-active bodies across the UK. You work directly with me — no junior staff, no account managers, no diluted expertise.

HOW I WORK

Rigorous, Transparent, Delivered on Time.

Discover

We begin with a focused conversation about your research aims, context, and constraints. I ask the questions that get to the heart of what you need — and what will make the work meaningful.

Step 1

Design & Deliver

I develop a tailored research approach, lead ethics and regulatory submissions where needed, and carry out the work to the highest methodological standards. You receive regular updates and have clear sight of progress throughout.

Step 2

Disseminate & Impact

I help you turn findings into something useful — whether a client report, a peer-reviewed publication, a conference presentation, or a plain language summary for patients. I see the work through to impact.

Step 3

Recognitions & Awards

Awwwards FWA

Site of the Day" for LawLex’s innovative Webflow build

2024

CSS Design Awards

UI Design Excellence

2024

Clutch Top 100

Ranked among top B2B design studios globally

2025

Adobe Design Achievement Awards

Finalist – Branding Category

2025

MY BACKGROUND

Three Decades of Specialist Haematology Research

I qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1991 and spent much of my subsequent career in specialist and research roles at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust — including nearly a decade as Lead Research Nurse at the Oxford Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre.

I joined Haemnet as Principal Investigator, leading multiple funded qualitative studies across rare haematological conditions, before taking a postdoctoral research position at the University of Oxford on the CureHeart cardiac gene therapy programme.

My doctoral research — the Exigency Programme — is one of the most comprehensive qualitative investigations of gene therapy from the patient perspective undertaken in the UK, completed as a PhD by published works at Oxford Brookes University in 2025.

SKILLS & EXPERTISE

What I Bring to Every Project

Research Design

→ Qualitative design
(interviews, focus groups)
→ Mixed-methods design &
integration
→ Thematic, framework & IPA
analysis
→ Discourse analysis
→ NVivo (qualitative data
software)
→ Protocol & study document
development

Clinical & Regulatory

→ Good Clinical Practice (GCP, NIHR 2024)
→ IRAS & REC submission & management
→ Clinical trials coordination (all
phases)
→ Informed consent (remote & paediatric)
→ Research ethics & integrity (Oxford certified)
→ IMP & biological sample
management

Project Management

→ Chief & Principal Investigator leadership
→ Grant writing & funding
proposals
→ Budget & contract management
→ Research site coordination & monitoring
→ Participant recruitment &
retention
→ SOP development & quality assurance

Dissemination

→ 20+ peer-reviewed
publications (h-index 7)
→ National & international
conference presenting
→ Peer review (13 international
journals)
→ Plain language & patient
communications
→ Academic manuscript
preparation
→ Book chapter authorship

Patient & Public Involvement

→ PPI design & facilitation
→ Good Participatory Practice (GPP)
→ Patient advisory group
coordination
→ Co-production with patient communities
→ Rare disease community
engagement

Specialist Knowledge

→ Haemophilia A & B (incl. inhibitors)
→ von Willebrand disease ·
Glanzmann thrombasthenia
→ Factor VII deficiency · sickle cell · thalassaemia
→ Gene therapy —
psychosocial dimensions
→ Immunohaematology
→ Medical ethics & law (MA
level)

WHY OXSIM

Senior Expertise, Without the Overhead.

Oxsim is designed for organisations that need to move quickly, respond to funding opportunities, or build research capacity in targeted areas. You benefit from thirty-plus years of clinical and research experience, a strong publication record, and an established network across UK haematology and gene therapy — available as and when you need it.

Meet Our Team

Simon Fletcher

Co-Founder

Jordan Bennett

Senior Qualitative Researcher

Taylor Morgan

Research & Methods Consultant