Bone illness remedy delay will price 1,400 girls’s lives
- Calls for £30million funding for the early detection of osteoporosis
Around 1,400 girls will die if Chancellor Jeremy Hunt fails to finish the postcode lottery on a devastating bone illness that impacts thousands and thousands.
MPs, friends and prime docs are calling on Mr Hunt to offer £30 million of funding for early detection of osteoporosis. Experts say the measure would pay for itself many instances over.
Campaigners hoped he would stump up the money on this month’s Budget to put in Fracture Liaison Services (FLS) in each NHS belief in England and Wales.
But Mr Hunt turned a deaf ear to pleas to roll it out throughout the UK. That will price as much as 1,400 lives, say consultants on the Royal Osteoporosis Society charity.
Campaigners say his inaction will even lead to £39 million of wasted prices within the NHS and social care.
Around 1,400 girls will die if Chancellor Jeremy Hunt fails to finish the postcode lottery on a devastating bone illness that impacts thousands and thousands
MPs, friends and prime docs are calling on Mr Hunt to offer £30 million of funding for early detection of osteoporosis
When a affected person aged over 50 turns up at A&E with a damaged bone, they’re referred to an FLS if one is on the market, which is able to assess them for osteoporosis.
Those with the illness can then be supplied remedy.
Although FLS is on the market in the entire NHS trusts in Scotland and Northern Ireland, they’re solely in simply over half of trusts in England and Wales.
The Mail on Sunday’s War On Osteoporosis marketing campaign is endorsed by the presidents of seven Medical Royal Colleges, 43 charities and by social networking websites Mumsnet and Gransnet. It can also be backed by enterprise organisations and commerce unions.
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Former Home Secretary David Blunkett mentioned the failure to fund FLS was a false financial system as a result of, with out it, hundreds of individuals would endure agonising fractures earlier than being recognized.
‘By doing nothing . . . Ministers have chosen the most costly possibility,’ he added.
Craig Jones, chief govt of the Royal Osteoporosis Society, referred to as on the Government to take pressing steps to combat the illness.
