According to Dr Evan Harris, Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, said: "These losses are a direct result of the target culture in the NHS, which has forced local hospitals to waste money chasing political targets at all costs.

"The refusal of the Government to give our local NHS Trusts enough time to achieve financial balance has made huge job losses, including redundancies, inevitable, just as I predicted." as reported by the BBC.

The Oxford Radcliffe NHS Trust joins the ever growing list of NHS trusts in financial difficulties as they chase Government targets, with a possible loss of 600 jobs. Patient services have already suffered, with routine cardiac ablation no longer offered to patients on a regular basis.

Possible 600 Jobs To Go In Oxford