World Osteoporosis Day, 20 October 2009

EDM number 2075 in 2008-09, proposed by John Austin on 19/10/2009.
Categorised under the topics of Diseases and Health services.

That this House notes that 20 October 2009 is World Osteoporosis Day; is concerned that three million people in the UK have osteoporosis and are at risk of painful and debilitating fractures; is alarmed that an average of 21 hip fracture-related deaths occur in each constituency every year; congratulates the National Osteoporosis Society on its continuing efforts to eradicate needless fragility fractures throughout the UK; calls for the universal implementation of the Government's Prevention Package for Older People throughout England; further notes that this advises local health and social care communities to establish comprehensive fracture liaison services on the basis that they are cost-neutral and effective in reducing future fractures; and calls for primary care trusts to review their falls and fracture services against those provided by other trusts within their region.

This motion has been signed by a total of 94 MPs.