DOCTORS were today meeting to discuss whether five-year-old Hampshire boy Ashya King can travel to the Czech Republic for pioneering cancer treatment.

Experts in Prague will decide whether to send a private medical jet fitted with appropriate equipment to transport the boy from Spain.

The Proton Therapy Centre in Prague has said documentation from the hospital in Malaga where Ashya is currently being treated will be reviewed before the child can travel.

The therapy centre's director of strategy, Iva Tatounova, said no decisions will be taken before the meeting.

She said: “We have to follow the standard procedures, which, if he comes on Monday night or Tuesday night or even Wednesday night, this doesn't make any harm to him, and the family can feel OK.

“Proton therapy will be part of his treatment. If he receives chemotherapy or not, this decision has to be made by clinical oncologists, we don't do chemotherapy here.”

Ashya's parents Brett and Naghmeh King, from Southsea, took him from Southampton General Hospital without the permission of doctors.

They were arrested and held in custody in Spain after British police raised the alarm when they took their son from hospital on August 28. They were released when prosecutors withdrew an arrest warrant in the wake of a public outcry.

On Friday a High Court judge ruled Ashya could be taken to the Czech republic for treatment.

Southern Malaga's Children's and Maternity Hospital has said Ashya is in a stable condition, and that a flight to Prague would not pose a problem to his health.

Family lawyer Juan Isidro Fernandez Diaz told reporters the boy was ''in perfect condition to travel'', and was playing with toys and his parents and brother yesterday.