Confusion yet again surrounds the closure of Milford Hospital with mixed messages emerging from health officials. Jeremy Hunt MP has written to Candy Morris, the Chief Executive of Surrey and Sussex Strategic Health Authority, to ask her to urgently clarify how the proposed closures are implemented. During the recent board meeting of the Primary Care Trust, chairman Chris Grimes told attendees that the decision made on April 27, 2006, to close Milford Hospital was “binding.” Mr Grimes made the comment in response to a question asked by Betty Ames.However in previous correspondence and discussions with Candy Morris, Mr Hunt has been told that the implementation of Option 1 was dependent on the outcome of the Surrey-wide review of health care. The suggestion from this was that if Option 1 conflicted with decisions made as a result of the Fit for the Future review, it may be reconsidered.Mr Hunt said: “For those of us fighting the mistaken decision to close Milford Hospital, it is vital to know whether it is a binding decision or not. Yet again with the NHS the left hand does not appear to know what the right hand is doing, with the PCT saying one thing and their bosses something else. For the sake of the staff and patients at Milford, we need proper clarity instead of improper fudge.""