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Fractures: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of delivering universal fracture liaison services by 2030 on (a) patients and (b) the NHS; and what the annual cost to the public purse wil

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
22 Jan 2025
Target answer date
24 Jan 2025
Answer
12 Feb 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 22 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of delivering universal fracture liaison services by 2030 on (a) patients and (b) the NHS; and what the annual cost to the public purse wil

  2. 24 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 12 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    The Government and NHS England support the clinical case for services which help to prevent fragility fractures and support the patients who sustain them. According to the Fracture Liaison Service Database 2022, at least 60 Trusts in England had access to...

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