South West Surrey MP Jeremy Hunt and Guildford MP Anne Milton have expressed their concern over plans for further cuts to the number of NHS staff, revealed this week in a leaked Department of Health document.According to the workforce planning document, the NHS will have to cut a further 37,000 jobs and close hospital services across the UK this year to try and reduce its level of financial deficit. It warned that the NHS workforce would have to be decreased by 2.7 per cent in order to restore 'financial balance' - almost twice as many as previously predicted.Jeremy said: “Labour’s disastrous financial mismanagement of the health service has hit local residents hard. Financial deficits were behind the proposals to shut local hospitals such as in Milford, Cranleigh and Haslemere and are the reason that the Royal Surrey County Hospital now faces closures. “Poor management by the Government cannot be allowed to impact on the level of local healthcare provision, which is why we must continue to fight against the threat to health services in Surrey and to save the Royal Surrey County Hospital.”Anne said: “The bottom line is that patient care will suffer if these cuts go ahead. There have already been significant cuts in training budgets, physiotherapists can't get jobs, operations are being delayed and in Guildford we are facing first hand the consequences of budget deficits with the threats to Royal Surrey and the closure of beds at Cranleigh. Patricia Hewitt staked her job on balancing the books in the NHS - far from saving the NHS which is what Labour said when they came to power - Patricia Hewitt appears to be only interested in saving her political skin.”