This is a drain on the welfare budget and a vast waste of potential and talent.Simply throwing money into the ravenous mouth ...

With a prompt diagnosis and the right support, people with osteoporosis can live a perfectly ordinary life, helped by medication which is safe, effective and highly affordable for the NHS.

In positive news for osteoporosis patients a new drug has been approved for use by the NHS. Earlier this year more than 100 experts and doctors had written to the National Institute for Health and ...

Much of the NHS in England is not ready to tackle osteoporosis and falls among older people, a survey has revealed. The study, by MPs, found only 43% of primary care trusts expect to implement ...

Preventable fractures as a result of osteoporosis are estimated to cost the NHS £4.5 billion each year, with one million hospital bed days taken up by hip fracture patients alone. The Royal ...

Around 14,000 women in England may soon be able to access a new treatment for osteoporosis after NICE backed routine NHS use of Theramex's Eladynos. The health technology assessment (HTA ...

Demand on the Royal Osteoporosis Society (ROS) line has surged by 28 per cent from 12,000 to 16,000. The spike was caused by the closure and delays to NHS services - which were already under ...

Osteoporosis affects more than 3.5 million ... Universal FLS will save the NHS £440 million over five years. 'Throughout winter, thousands will end up in hospital with fractures which could ...

Closing the eye-watering treatment gap for osteoporosis depends on ending the inequalities in local services across the NHS Craig Jones, Royal Osteoporosis Society “The decision to approve the ...

Yet, for many years, osteoporosis has been overlooked by the NHS. At-risk patients – for example, older women who have suffered a recent bone break – should be screened for the disease using a ...

More services in Wales to help diagnose osteoporosis could save the NHS £4.5m a year, a charity has claimed. The National Osteoporosis Society is calling for every hospital in Wales to have such ...

More services in Wales to help diagnose osteoporosis could save the NHS £4.5m a year, a charity has claimed. The National Osteoporosis Society is calling for every hospital in Wales to have such ...