Age Discrimination In The Nhs

EDM number 1226 in 1992-93, proposed by Liz Lynne on 22/01/1993.

That this House expresses its support for the statement made by the authors of the report Health: Abilities and Wellbeing in Third Age, Research Paper Number 9 to the Carnegie Inquiry into the Third Age, that it is crucial that access of older people to the best of specialist medical care should be on the basis of physiological assessment, rather than age; expresses its concern that there is already evidence of age discrimination in terms of access of older people to coronary care and thrombolysis; further recognises that the new arrangements in the NHS could pose greater threats of access to treatment by age if hospital trusts, being paid a flat rate, determine that the often longer stay of elderly patients makes them unsuitable condidates for treatment; and calls upon the Government to make it clear to all NHS trusts that discrimination on the grounds of age will not be tolerated.

This motion has been signed by a total of 63 MPs.