There have been about 350 assaults on Oxfordshire hospital staff in the last three years.
In 2008/09 there were 119, in 2009/10 there were 121, and in 2010/11 there were 113 attacks at the John Radcliffe, Churchill and NOC in Oxford and the Horton in Banbury.
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