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Do older people have to fight harder to get the best medical care?

Macmillan the Cancer charity claims 14,000 elderly people are dying needlessly every year because of ageism in the way they are treated.

Macmillan says older people should push their doctors to make sure they are offered all the possible treatments.

Did you have to fight for your treatment? On the Breakfast show with Clare and John Roy Lilley a fomer senior NHS manager says he does not believe that doctors withold treatment from older people. Is he right?

Should older people get exactly the same treatment as younger patients? Do you feel you or an elderly relative was cut adrift, maybe even left to die when you felt they should still have been receiveing treatment. Maybe you or a relative were offered all the options and you decided not to take the treatment. Why?

Is it wrong to drag an old perosn's life out, or is every day precious and worth fighting for.

It is exactly 30 years to the day since Britain became involved in the Falkland conflict.

In the two months of fighting 255 British soldiers and 650 Argentine troops died and many more escaped with injuries that they continue to live with today.

When paratrooper Steve Tuffen was lying on the ground after being shot twice in the head, he did not expect to survive. But he did. Against the odds.

Then aged 18, he was injured during the battle of Goose Green. He is now 48. Steve speaks live to us this morning.

We hear your views and stories.

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