Work has now started preparing a letter urging the Secretary of State to hold a review into decisions made on the future of key hospital services in South Tyneside.
The move to refer the decisions comes following the announcement made, last month, by the South Tyneside and Sunderland Clinical Commissioning Groups over the future of three key hospital services in South Tyneside.
•All acute stroke cases directed to Sunderland Royal Hospital.
•A free-standing midwifery-led unit (FMLU), known as a birthing centre, operated at South Tyneside District Hospital, with a medically-led obstetric unit at Sunderland.
•The development of a nurse-led paediatric minor injury and illness facility at South Tyneside District Hospital – open 8am to 10pm – and 24/7 paediatric emergency department at Sunderland Royal. Before that, short-term, there will be a daytime paediatric emergency department at South Tyneside District Hospital and 24/7 paediatric emergency department at Sunderland Royal.
The decision came after some councillors highlighted anomalies during the course of the consultation.
Coun Pat Hay said; "There has been a great many anomalies within it. Some of thosehave come from the ambulance service and it's right to highlight that.
"For example the response times. The ambulance services said the response times would be 12 minutes from South Tyneside to Sunderland but that would depend as they stated on the time of day.
Coun Anne Hetherington also queried figures given for the number of high risk births mentioned in reports.
She claimed documentation she had requested to support the argument that midwife-led units were safe in areas with similar depravation to South Tyneside had not been forthcoming.