As serving and former health and support professionals who care deeply about the future of Scotland's NHS, we believe its future would be best secured with a Yes vote on September 18 2014.
Through the Barnett formula, every £10 that the NHS in England loses in the future through austerity, privatisation and patient charging would automatically see Scotland's budget for public services cut by £1.
Alistair Darling would have you believe that the warnings of Labour MPs in England about the dire privatised future of NHS England, and the warnings of the Labour Government in Wales about the impact of Tory cuts to their NHS, should be ignored in Scotland.
However, even his own Scottish Labour MP colleagues have highlighted their fears about the impact of Westminster's plans for the NHS here in Scotland.
Westminster is wedded to further and deeper austerity, with at least £25 billion more cuts to public spending planned by the Tories.
To put that in context, in the event of No vote this would see Scotland's budget for public services slashed further by Westminster, by about 10 per cent over the next few years.
Cuts of 10% to NHS frontline spending would have a devastating impact on the service. The largest single area of expenditure in the NHS is staffing, and the largest proportion of this is our vital nursing staff. A cut in the region of 10 per cent could potentially see the NHS lose over 4,000 nurses.
With a Yes vote we can enshrine the NHS as a publicly-owned institution, serving the people of Scotland, free at the point of need.
NHS for Yes, 136 Hope Street, Glasgow.
Audrey Birt, former nurse and charity director; Dr Hugh Bishop, consultant; Pauline Boyle, midwife; Dr Ian Grant, retired consultant; Andy Hurst, nurse; Prof Mike Lean, nutrition; Dr Ian McKee MBE, retired GP and medical publisher.
Here's the full list of 66 signatories:
Andy Hurst, nurse
Andy Notman, senior nurse
Audrey Birt, Former nurse and charity director
Carole Paterson, nurse
Caroline Bowman, medical secretary
David Carnegie, medical physicist
David Gillespie, occupational health physician
Edward Robertson, staff nurse
Ewen Marshall, health IT
Fiona Finnie, clinical pharmacist
Graeme Stevenson, Optometrist
Inga Heyman, nursing/midwifery lecturer
Jamie Paterson, senior nurse
John O'Donnell, dentist
John Riley, retired clinical scientist
John Stirling, charge nurse
John Wylie, Nurse
Jon Drummond, dentist
Katrina Patterson, biomedical scientist
Kerina Robb, staff nurse
Marc Pollock, Optometrist
Maree Todd, Pharmacist
Martin Urquhart, health admin
Morgwn Davies, biomedical scientist
Mr David Hamilton, retired surgeon
Neil Campbell, technology consultant
Pauline Boyle, midwife
Phillip Barlow, Optometrist
Prof Andrew Watterson, public health
Prof Mike Lean, Nutrition
Ricky Sheriff-Short, nurse
Sarah Everett, nurse
Steven Griffiths, radiographer
Vincent McGhee, sterile service technician
Dr Andrew Brown, GP
Dr Anne Mullin, GP
Dr Catriona Pagliari, Consultant Radiologist
Dr Craig Wales, consultant
Dr Gerard Boyle, GP
Dr Hans J. Pieper GP, Ayr
Dr Helga Rhein, GP
Dr Hugh Bishop, consultant
Dr Ian Grant, retired consultant
Dr Ian McKee MBE, Retired GP and medical publisher
Dr Kenneth Hare, retired GP
Dr Martin Connolly, A&E
Dr Nancy Burge, GP
Dr Nicolas Dear, GP
Dr Penny McKee MB ChB MRCGP MSc Pub Health
Dr Philippa Whitford, consultant surgeon
Dr Robert Scott, retired GP
Dr Ross Archibald, FY2
Dr Roz Wilson, GP
Dr Steven Miller, GP
Dr Therese Carswell, public health doctor
Dr Tim Adams, consultant
Dr Willie Wilson, pharmacy contractor
Yvonne McLeod
Alec Logan
Kenneth Barker
Gordon Jones
Catriona Gordon
Robert Hunter
Graham McKirdy
Geoff Earl
John Aberdein
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