Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were referred to the Fracture Liaison Service with fragility fractures in each of the last five years; and what proportion of those patients were women over the age of 50.

While NHS England does not hold this information centrally, data in relation to the Fracture Liaison Services (FLS) can be found in the FLS-Database Annual reports. The 2024 report, which includes data in relation to gender, is available at the following link:

https://www.hqip.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Ref-419-FLS-DB-2024-annual-report-1.pdf