A Fantastic Ormond Street spokeswoman explained there was really little chance independence would impede Scottish patients becoming taken care of there. Photograph: Getty Images
An anti-independence campaign advert shown in Scottish cinemas by the Vote No Borders group has been pulled soon after a complaint from Great Ormond Street children’s hospital in London. The ad, a single of several produced by Vote No Borders, claimed that Scots would uncover it much more difficult to get NHS care at Excellent Ormond Street following independence.
United kingdom ministers and anti-independence campaigns have insisted that independence would make it far more hard for Scottish sufferers to transfer to English NHS hospitals. Great Ormond Street said that in its case, nonetheless, that was incorrect. Vote No Borders took the offending advert down on Thursday, it stated.
The row follows the Guardian’s disclosure that all the UK’s significant cinema chains had banned additional referendum campaign ads from 5 June, after being inundated with complaints from independence supporters towards professional-United kingdom ads from Better Collectively and Vote No Borders.
A Wonderful Ormond Street spokeswoman stated there was quite tiny risk that independence would impede Scottish individuals going there. The hospital was employed routinely by sufferers across Europe and across the globe simply because it had very extremely specialised knowledge, frequently not available abroad.
“Some of our professional remedies are only accessible right here, so we’re probably really diverse from a whole lot of standard NHS hospitals, so we do have arrangements with a lot of countries simply because they don’t have the identical degree of expert care that we can supply sufferers.”
In a statement, the hospital explained: “Great Ormond Street hospital was not consulted about this advertising, and we in no way endorse its messages, or that of any other political campaign group.
“We have contacted the Vote No Borders group to request that the advert is eliminated from cinemas as quickly as achievable.”
Vote No Borders has been asked to comment.
Dr Willie Wilson, a co-founder of the campaign NHS for Yes, said: “This is a new low for the no campaign, who are now lowered to employing sick children to scare individuals into voting no.
“The no campaign have repeatedly produced false claims such as this. It’s now important that they withdraw all off their misleading literature and apologise to Scottish families whom they’ve needlessly distressed.”
Malcolm Offord, a co-founder of Vote No Borders, mentioned that the advert which the hospital objected to was due to end its cinema run on Thursday, but he defended the selection to raise cross-border entry to NHS providers in the quick film.
“Voters are concerned about well being and the services and specialist care that they have had easy accessibility to in the previous,” he explained.
“There is uncertainty in their minds about what will happen. Reciprocal agreements may possibly not be in place or even if they are, it is not particular that the degree or indicates of entry will be the same.”
Offord went on: “Our analysis indicates that Scottish voters want much more details. Much more information requirements to be presented by the government on these nitty gritty issues.People would like to know much more information about how these arrangements will operate and will the entry be the same.”
Scottish "no" campaign NHS ad pulled from cinemas right after hospital complains
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