Mums across Oxfordshire are mounting a campaign to save a world-renowned breast-feeding clinic at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital. Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust is facing a £33m deficit and is planning to make major cuts, including 600 posts. Two-hundred staff, including two surgeons, will lose their jobs this summer.
The trust wants to shut the Horton's special care baby unit, downgrade maternity services and close the 24-hour children's ward.
Campaigners say the number of deliveries per year could increase from 6,500 to 8,000 at the John Radcliffe's maternity unit if the proposed cuts are made at the Horton, and there will then be an even greater need for the clinic, which was launched in 1991.
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