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Around 1,400 women will dice if Chancellor Jeremy Hunt fails to extremity nan postcode lottery connected a devastating bony illness that affects millions.
MPs, peers and apical doctors are calling connected Mr Hunt to supply £30 cardinal of backing for early discovery of osteoporosis. Experts opportunity nan measurement would salary for itself galore times over.
Campaigners hoped he would stump up nan rate successful this month's Budget to instal Fracture Liaison Services (FLS) successful each NHS spot successful England and Wales.
But Mr Hunt turned a deaf receptor to pleas to rotation it retired crossed nan UK. That will costs up to 1,400 lives, opportunity experts astatine nan Royal Osteoporosis Society charity.
Campaigners opportunity his inaction will besides consequence successful £39 cardinal of wasted costs successful nan NHS and societal care.
Around 1,400 women will dice if Chancellor Jeremy Hunt fails to extremity nan postcode lottery connected a devastating bony illness that affects millions
MPs, peers and apical doctors are calling connected Mr Hunt to supply £30 cardinal of backing for early discovery of osteoporosis
When a diligent aged complete 50 turns up astatine A&E pinch a surgery bone, they are referred to an FLS if 1 is available, which will measure them for osteoporosis.
Those pinch nan illness tin past beryllium offered treatment.
Although FLS is disposable successful each of nan NHS trusts successful Scotland and Northern Ireland, they are only successful conscionable complete half of trusts successful England and Wales.
The Mail connected Sunday's War On Osteoporosis run is endorsed by nan presidents of 7 Medical Royal Colleges, 43 charities and by societal networking sites Mumsnet and Gransnet. It is besides backed by business organisations and waste and acquisition unions.
A increasing database of 270 politicians from nan awesome parties besides backmost us.
Former Home Secretary David Blunkett said nan nonaccomplishment to money FLS was a mendacious system because, without it, thousands of group would suffer agonising fractures earlier being diagnosed.
'By doing thing . . . Ministers person chosen nan astir costly option,' he added.
Craig Jones, main executive of nan Royal Osteoporosis Society, called connected nan Government to return urgent steps to conflict nan disease.
