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Older People's Rights (Health Care)

I endorse the concerns that the hon. Gentleman has expressed about the second two cases. I think that he will remember that we made a recommendation about breast screening age. When one is dealing with a screening procedure for a defined population, it can be legitimate to identify those people for whom routine calls for screening will not be cost effective. The people I am talking about are the ones who are still able to opt into the screening for themselves, in a cost-effective way. I know that the hon. Gentleman understands that there is an important distinction to be made between the first of the examples that he gave and the other two, which are not acceptable.