1.   Health chiefs have called an urgent meeting to discuss the problem.

2.   Health chiefs have secured cash to build two new hospitals.

3.   Most health chiefs believe the reforms have gone too far.

4.   Now regional health chiefs have decided against funding the service themselves.

5.   But today health chiefs from the West Midlands region met in Birmingham to decide whether the service should become permanent, with funding from the NHS.

6.   HEALTH chiefs are denying that taking critically injured patients from East Belfast to the Royal Victoria Hospital is a bridge too far.

7.   HEALTH chiefs on Merseyside have received a stinging rebuff from Walton Labour MP Peter Kilfoyle.