An extraordinary meeting has been called to discuss the threat of closure or downgrading of accident and emergency and maternity units at Kingston Hospital.

Kingston will lose at least one major service in 16 out of 18 options being looked at by a review of south-west London, according to a document leaked to Edward Davey, Kingston and Surbiton's Liberal Democrat MP.

Kingston's influential health overview and scrutiny panel of councillors will interrogate senior figures from the NHS on Wednesday at 7pm in the Guildhall.

Mr Davey and Susan Kramer, MP for Richmond Park, will be able to ask questions to the NHS publicly for the first time since they launched their Save Kingston Hospital campaign.

Kingston Hospital's chief executive Kate Grimes, and chairman Christopher Smallwood, as well as Healthcare for South West London's chairman Sian Bates and clinical director Dr Martyn Wake, have been invited to give evidence.

Earlier in the day the hospital will have held its own board meeting at 11.30am.

At the last meeting, chairman Christopher Smallwood told Tory councillors closure of A+E or maternity was "inconceivable".