Osteoporosis: Screening

(asked on 15th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the UK National Screening Committee plans to publish a review of its recommendations on screening for osteoporosis in postmenopausal women.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 8th January 2024

The UK National Screening Committee considered screening women for osteoporosis in 2019, but recommended not to screen for it, due to limited evidence.

The review is available at the following link:

https://view-health-screening-recommendations.service.gov.uk/osteoporosis/

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