Osteoporosis: Health Services
(asked on 30th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the capacity of the NHS in England to diagnose and treat osteoporosis.
This question was answered on 2nd February 2023
Services for those with osteoporosis are commissioned locally by Integrated Care Boards (ICBs). NHS England’s Getting it Right First Time Programme has a specific workstream on musculoskeletal health, which includes work to explore how best to support ICBs in the diagnosis and treatment of Osteoporosis.