Osteoporosis: Waiting Lists

(asked on 15th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the adequacy of waiting times for access to a DXA bone density scan.


Answered by
Lord Kamall Portrait
Lord Kamall
This question was answered on 23rd March 2022

No formal assessment has been made. However, NHS England’s data as of January 2022 shows that 36.3% of patients waiting for DEXA scans have been waiting more than six weeks.

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