A call has been made for South-east Londoners to join a protest against cuts and changes in hospital and health services - reports icSouthLondon.
Greenwich Unison and campaign group Keep Our NHS Public are urging people to join a national march and rally on Saturday.
Proposals for the region have provoked widespread anguish and have been slammed by MPs for being "a step too far".
In the past year the hospitals have made millions of pounds worth of savings and cut hundreds of jobs.
Last month, recommendations that emergency and critical care should be axed from two of the region's four cash-strapped hospitals were revealed.
The proposal came out of a review of health services in Greenwich, Lewisham, Bexley and Bromley led by the boroughs' primary care trusts.
In the document A Picture of Health, the trusts outlined their aim to save cash and improve services by relocating some hospital treatments to centres closer to people's homes and by concentrating specialist services in fewer hospitals.
No firm decisions have been made but a key consideration is likely to be the economic argument to keep full services at the hospitals with the biggest private finance debts - Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich and Princess Royal in Bromley.
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