Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will commit to (a) developing a national bone denisity and osteoporosis screening service and (b) assessing the potential merits of piloting such a service as part of integrated care systems.

Recommendations for screening programmes are made by the United Kingdom National Screening Committee (UK NSC), an independent advisory committee. Recommendations on whether to screen for a particular condition are taken following a rigorous review process and based on the best evidence available.

The UK NSC has considered screening postmenopausal women for osteoporosis previously, but did not recommend a screening programme. The UK NSC will review the evidence in 2022/23.