Wandsworth councillors are expected to meet tonight in a bid to block NHS plans to close Battersea's Bolingbroke Hospital - reports Your Local Guardian.
The council's health scrutiny committee is expected to refer the planned closure to Health Secretary Alan Johnson urging him to keep Bolingbroke open.
Referring the case to Mr Johnson would provide at least a temporary reprieve for Bolingbroke after bosses at Wandsworth Primary Care Trust and St George's Healthcare Trust decided to shut the hospital earlier this month.
Committee chairman Ian Hart said the decision to close the 104-year-old hospital was taken in the face of massive public opposition.
The council is expected to call on Mr Johnson to reverse the flawed decision by the two NHS trusts because health chiefs have not adequately responded to the deep concerns expressed by the committee.
"We will be calling on Mr Johnson to overturn this unpopular and illogical decision," Coun Hart said.
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