UK: Age Discrimination in the National Health Service?

From The Telegraph

"NHS 'defies the law' to deny pensioners vital operations, warns Royal College of Surgeons
Elderly people are being denied life-saving operations because of age discrimination within the NHS, the Royal College of Surgeons and charity Age UK warns...New data reveal for the first time that across large areas of the country, almost no patients above the age of 75 are receiving surgery for breast cancer or routine operations such as gall bladder removal and knee replacements.".