The way liver transplants are assigned through the NHS is causing younger patients to wait much longer for their surgeries, according to new data.
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Managers at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading reportedly terminated Eileen Jolly in January 2017 after she failed to properly use a computer system.
A pensioner has claimed she was denied surgery after being automatically deemed "unfit" because she was over 70. Pat Kelso from County Fermanagh said she needed a hip operation in 2012 but there was a 68-week waiting list in the Western Health Trust area.
Thousands of elderly people are dying unnecessarily early because ‘despicable’ age discrimination in the NHS is denying them treatment for cancer, a charity has warned.
Older people are being denied vital surgery for cancer, hernia repairs and joint replacements because the NHS imposes "cutoffs" for treatment based on age discrimination, a report has warned.
Series of critical reports in past year have uncovered examples of elderly people suffering abuse and neglect at hands of carers
Too young to have IVF: 24-year-old Andrea Heywood fights against age discrimination and her right to fertility treatment
A 23-year-old died of cervical cancer because doctors said she was too young for a smear test, her devastated family have claimed.
Elderly cancer sufferers die in greater numbers than younger patients because of NHS ageism, official figures suggest.
The Patients Association highlights harrowing cases of pensioners being left starving or suffering in agony.
A mother has accused NHS chiefs of 'age discrimination' after they refused to supply special artificial limbs to her one-year-old daughter until she is 18.
The Government and health watchdogs have devised a series of plans to tackle the age discrimination problem.
The NHS treats elderly patients with broken hips as a "low priority", a Government watchdog has said.
Older people suffer delays and are less likely to undergo radical surgery, according to research.
Older women with breast cancer are less likely to receive surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy to treat it, a charity has warned.