article_snippet.sent: New NHS guidelines urge GPs to draw up end-of-life plans for over-75s, as well as younger patients suffering from cancer, dementia, heart disease or serious lung conditions.
article_snippet.sent: New NHS guidelines urge GPs to draw up end-of-life plans for over-75s and say end-of-life plans for over-75s will improve over-75s care .
article_snippet.sent: The NHS says the guidance will improve patients' end-of-life care, but medical professionals say it is 'blatantly wrong' and will frighten the elderly into thinking medical professionals are being 'written off'.
article_snippet.sent: The guidelines – which also recommend patients should be asked if patients want to die at home – have been drawn up by experts advising NHS England, the organisation which runs the health service.
article_snippet.sent: One expert last night said The extraordinary new guidance was 'the thin end of the wedge of assisted suicide'.
article_snippet.sent: But asking patients to make such a decision when patients may have many years to live will prompt concerns that the NHS is writing patients off.
highlights_snippet.sent: New NHS guidelines urge GPs to draw up end-of-life plans for over 75s .
  