Tens of thousands of campaigners will learn today whether their fight to save a private hospital has been a success.
Details were being announced this afternoon about a deal drawn up to keep King Edward VII Hospital in Midhurst open.
The charitable trust which runs the hospital went into provisional liquidation just before Christmas after running into debts of millions of pounds.
The hospital treats thousands from West Sussex, East Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire.
More than 70,000 people signed a petition calling for it to be saved.
It has specialist cancer, cardiac and orthopaedic facilities and half the patients are NHS referrals.
Staff say they have been helping prop up the NHS by taking patients and helping reduce waiting lists.
A financial rescue package with a US healthcare company fell through last year.
The charity which runs King Edward VII said part of the problem was that NHS bosses would not commit themselves to using the hospital's services.
The NHS threw it a £900,000 lifeline earlier this year by agreeing to send more state patients.
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