The three main UK party leaders gave a joint promise Tuesday that Scotland will get extra powers if it opts to stay part of the United Kingdom in a landmark vote in two days' time, reports GHN based on CNN.
Opinion polls have put the pro-independence and pro-union camps neck-and-neck in the run-up to Thursday's referendum.
With the survival of the 300-year-old union of England, Scotland and Wales as Great Britain on a knife-edge, UK Prime Minister David Cameron of the Conservatives, coalition partner Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats and Labour leader Ed Miliband have joined forces to beg Scotland to stay.
In a pledge published on the front page of Scotland's Daily Recordnewspaper, the three leaders say that if Scotland's voters reject independence, work to devolve "extensive new powers" from the central government in Westminster will start Friday.
The issue of spending on social welfare and health care, through the National Health Service, has been central to the pro-independence campaign. Questions over the economy and taxation have also been key.
In their promise, the leaders say "we can state categorically that the final say on how much is spent on the NHS will be a matter for the Scottish Parliament."
They conclude, "People want to see change. A No vote will deliver faster, safer and better change than separation."