Written Evidence Nov. 29 2023
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Mentions:
1: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) If mental health is the Cinderella service, treatment for the prevention and care of osteoporosis is - Speech Link
2: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) It will provide a photo backdrop for politicians who like to say that they do not have a racist bone - Speech Link
3: Lord Lexden (Con - Life peer) Osteoporosis and fractures can have a huge effect on younger people’s professional lives. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) I have chaired the all-party parliamentary group on osteoporosis and bone health for some time now, along - Speech Link
2: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) A loss of bone density affects people of all sexes as they age, but women lose more bone density more - Speech Link
3: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) With osteoporosis, bone turnover becomes out of balance. - Speech Link
4: Will Quince (Con - Colchester) As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on osteoporosis and bone health, she has long been a champion - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) The menopause is an important time for bone health. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Alderdice (LDEM - Life peer) work on the APPG on Osteoporosis and Bone Health.Osteoporosis has a huge impact, especially on women - Speech Link
2: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) fragile.In osteoporosis, this bone loss in the long bones and the vertebrae is particularly evident. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bilimoria (CB - Life peer) Why can there not be a public health campaign about bone health—far more than is taking place now—to - Speech Link
4: Lord Evans of Rainow (CON - Life peer) As chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Osteoporosis and Bone Health, he has long been a champion - Speech Link
Asked by: Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat - Bath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) referral and (b) risk assessment criteria will be for referring women to women’s health hubs in order to access Fracture Liaison Services.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
In July 2023 we announced that the £25 million investment in women’s health hubs is being distributed to every integrated care board (ICB), with each ICB receiving £595,000 in total over 2023/24 and 2024/25. ICBs have been asked to use the funding to establish or expand one women’s health hub, including working with their local authority commissioners and within their system.
It is important that services are provided in a way that best meets population needs and reduces health inequalities, and ICBs will determine which specific services their hub will offer. To support ICBs to establish women’s health hubs, we have published a cost-benefit analysis, and a core specification. The core specification sets out which services ICBs could consider incorporating into their hub model, either in terms of provision or signposting. Osteoporosis assessment and care, for example DEXA (bone density) scanning or fracture liaison services is included in the core specification as an area for consideration.
Further information on women’s health hubs was published on GOV.UK in July 2023 at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/womens-health-hubs
Asked by: Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat - Bath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the referral pathways will be for women to access women’s health hubs in order to benefit from Fracture Liaison Services.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
In July 2023 we announced that the £25 million investment in women’s health hubs is being distributed to every integrated care board (ICB), with each ICB receiving £595,000 in total over 2023/24 and 2024/25. ICBs have been asked to use the funding to establish or expand one women’s health hub, including working with their local authority commissioners and within their system.
It is important that services are provided in a way that best meets population needs and reduces health inequalities, and ICBs will determine which specific services their hub will offer. To support ICBs to establish women’s health hubs, we have published a cost-benefit analysis, and a core specification. The core specification sets out which services ICBs could consider incorporating into their hub model, either in terms of provision or signposting. Osteoporosis assessment and care, for example DEXA (bone density) scanning or fracture liaison services is included in the core specification as an area for consideration.
Further information on women’s health hubs was published on GOV.UK in July 2023 at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/womens-health-hubs