Don't blame the elderly: only one in five A&E patients are pensioners, says former Health Secretary Winter gridlock in NHS hospitals is not being caused by elderly patients, but by working-age people with “nowhere else to go”, a former Conservative health secretary has said.
Stephen Dorrell’s comments came as new figures revealed just one fifth of patients attending A&E last year were over 65.
He told the Telegraph the new data showed it was wrong to blame pensioners for the crisis.
Meanwhile Age UK said it was often the elderly who suffered worst in jam-packed emergency departments, where cases of older patients languishing on trolleys for more than 12 hours has tripled in the last two years. The Daily Telegraph
Stephen Dorrell’s comments came as new figures revealed just one fifth of patients attending A&E last year were over 65.
He told the Telegraph the new data showed it was wrong to blame pensioners for the crisis.
Meanwhile Age UK said it was often the elderly who suffered worst in jam-packed emergency departments, where cases of older patients languishing on trolleys for more than 12 hours has tripled in the last two years. The Daily Telegraph
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