CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save the region’s children’s heart unit from closure could launch their own judicial review.

MPs from around Yorkshire and Humberside met in Parliament yesterday to get an update following a High Court ruling which branded the consultation into the closure of cardiac centres as “unlawful and must therefore be quashed”.

The Examiner reported on Tuesday that the threatened Royal Brompton hospital in London challenged the Safe and Sustainable team following the consultation by the Joint Committee of the Primary Care Trusts of England (JCPCT), aimed at streamlining paediatric congenital cardiac surgery services nationally.

They had branded the independent consultation into the review as “flawed”.

The ruling means the decision on the future of the threatened Yorkshire Children’s Heart Unit, based at Leeds General Infirmary, has been delayed until spring 2012.

Colne Valley MP Jason McCartney attended the meeting with Yorkshire’s Save Our Service campaigners and the judicial review option was mentioned.