WE love our NHS and believe that, working for it, as we all do or have done, is both a privilege and an act of service to our fellow citizens.
We are living through tough financial times and can ill afford the additional cuts that would surely come should Scotland choose the risk of independence ahead of the broad shoulders of the UK.
Patients from Scotland can access the care they need anywhere in the UK. Independence would, at best, put them at the back of the queue and specialities would need to be replicated here in Scotland at huge additional cost. None of this need be the case.
Over the last month those who would break up our NHS through a Yes vote have peddled constant lies. Those lies have shifted as they have been disproved. First, they claimed we would be forced to privatise. Not true; we have devolution.
Then they claimed that NHS budgets in England are being cut. Not true; they have increased year on year. Now they wish to sow division among those who campaign for the good of our NHS.
Let us be clear. With more powers for our Scottish Parliament within the security of the UK, our NHS is safe. The £6 billion cuts of independence are the great risk to our greatest institution.
Dr Anna Gregor, Retired Consultant Clinical Oncologist, lead cancer clinician for Scotland, Clinical Director of South East Scotland Cancer Network and Associated Medical Director NHS Lothian; John Coggins, Professor of Molecular Enzymology and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Faculty of Biomedical & Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow; Robin Leake, Former President of the British Gynaecological Cancer Society & Former Secretary of the British Breast Group; Dr Neil Dewhurst, former President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburg; Prof Alan Rodger, former director of the Medical Director of the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre; Alison Kerr, medical academic; Dr J.S. Rennie CBE, Postgraduate Dean for Dentistry in Scotland; Hugh Pennington, Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen and 191 others all signed in a personal capacity,
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This list of signatories was compiled by Better Together.
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