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Neil Findlay: Scottish No vote won't threaten NHS

SCOTTISH Labour health spokesman Neil Findlay dismissed fresh claims yesterday that the NHS in Scotland would be under threat in the event of a No vote in the independence referendum.

In an interview for the pro-Yes Sunday Herald newspaper, Queen Mary University of London professor Allyson Pollock claimed that reforms in the NHS south of the border could result in “serious consequences” for Scotland by translating into reduced funding through the Barnett formula.

Left MSP Mr Findlay told the Morning Star: “There is nothing new in these claims, the NHS is fully devolved and has been since 1999 so successive governments can and have taken a different route to what is going on in England. 

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