On 16 December, Paul Burstow MP secured a Westminster Hall Debate on Age Discrimination in Healthcare.  During the course of the debate, Greg Mulholland MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Minister referred to the BGS survey of geriatricians’ views with regard to the existence of ageism in the NHS:

“...almost half of all geriatricians think that the NHS's failure to provide older people with the level of care to which they are entitled amounts to institutional ageism.  That is according to the leading geriatricians in the country, and we should all be deeply concerned about such comments.  More than half of those same geriatricians-55 per cent.-said they were personally worried about their own prospects for receiving adequate care from the NHS when they are over 65.  Alex Mair, chief executive of the British Geriatrics Society, was quoted in The Guardian as saying "the NHS is currently failing older people".” Hansard Column: 283WH

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