‘Scaring the vulnerable’ over NHS

THE SNP was accused last night of trying to ‘scare vulnerable patients’ by claiming the

NHS could be privatised by the Tories.

A campaign advert in a newspaper last week warned: ‘Boris Johnson is threatening to seize control of our NHS’.

The advert also included a photo of Foresterhill Health Campus, in Aberdeen, complete with the NHS Grampian logo – sparking a complaint by Scottish Tory health spokesman Miles Briggs to the Electoral Commission.

Mr Briggs said: ‘Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP should hang their heads in shame. Is there really no depths to which the SNP will sink to try to scare vulnerable patients and their families?

The use of the NHS Scotland logo and hospital photos by the SNP in newspaper adverts and SNP propaganda could be in breach of strict Election rules that forbid the use of the logos of public bodies in campaigning.

‘SNP Ministers are presiding over a crisis in NHS Scotland. They have nothing positive to say about themselves or their record in office.

If all the SNP now have to offer Scotland is scaremongering on our NHS then that is a shocking indictment of 12 years of the SNP having full control over our Scottish NHS.’

The NHS has been devolved for two decades.