Question follow-through · 25911
Fractures: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to develop fracture liaison services nationwide.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 22 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 14 Feb 2025 · 23 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to develop fracture liaison services nationwide.
24 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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