NHS made secret plan to deny care to elderly in event of pandemic

Thousands of pensioners died as Covid spread through care homes (Pictures: Getty)Elderly people in their 70s faced being denied a hospital bed under an NHS plan for pandemics.The secret NHS England document proposed treating patients on their chances of survival rather than clinical need.The strategy was designed in 2017 to ensure the health service would cope in the event of a severe flu pandemic.Care could be given on a triage system if as many as 6,500 out of a projected emergency 7,000 inten