Craig Jones
@CraigJonesROS
CEO, Royal Osteoporosis Society; Formerly NHS National Organ Donation Committee. Travel obsessive - 103 countries in… Prof and personal views.
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http://www.theros.org.uk 18-01-2011 08:51:26
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Read Ed's story about his journey with coeliac disease and osteoporosis.
Coeliac is an autoimmune disease which reduces the ability to absorb essential vitamins and minerals like calcium properly.
theros.org.uk/blog/ed-s-stor…
#coeliacawareness #coeliacawareness month
Great to be at the Women's Health APPG APPG on Women’s Health discussing the need for osteoporosis support for women during menopause. Great discussion chaired by Cherilyn Mackrory MP
Sunday Express Better Bones campaign week 43: The brilliant Iain Dale ⚒️🇺🇦.🇮🇱. talks about his surprise osteoporosis diagnosis. Very proud to have him as an Ambassador of Royal Osteoporosis Society | Express.co.uk express.co.uk/news/uk/189312…
“The end result of untreated osteoporosis is a broken hip, the heart-attack level event that ruins people’s lives and, in so many cases, ends them prematurely.' - Craig Jones
Read more via Daily Express express.co.uk/life-style/hea…
A win for our #BetterBones campaign and a role model example to the other three nations on bone health. 🦴
Welsh Health Secretary just announced substantial Transformation Fund for Fracture Liaison Services. First nation to respond in full to our Sunday Express campaign. Thanks Eluned Morgan - what about England Victoria Atkins Rt Hon Andrew Stephenson MP Wes Streeting MP ? #bonehealthinwales
Great to be back in Wales for the second Government-led Fracture Liaison Services conference - about to hear from Minister Eluned Morgan about her mandate for 100% coverage for everyone with osteoporosis in Wales 🏴 🏅 #bonehealthinwales
…but despite promises, zero action on osteoporosis, meaning 8,000 people will needlessly die of broken hips over the next 5 years. Why this blind spot? Some ROS members say, depressingly, “it’s because most sufferers are older women” Rt Hon Andrew Stephenson MP Maria Caulfield MP Wes Streeting MP
'We’re calling on Health Secretary Victoria Atkins to intervene personally to get the 90,000 people missing life-changing drugs the treatment they need.” - Craig Jones
Read more via Daily Express #BetterBonesCampaign express.co.uk/news/uk/188807…
Victoria Atkins
We must Make Britain Unbreakable. End the postcode lottery on Fracture Liaison Service Victoria Atkins Craig Jones Royal Osteoporosis Society Cancer is less lethal to elderly than hip fractures newspaper.mailplus.co.uk/data/4164/read…
⬇️ From the Mail’s “War on Osteoporosis” campaign. Broken hips can be deadly, and half of people who suffer them had a previous break which could have flagged them as an osteoporosis risk. We need early detection through Fracture Liaison Services Rt Hon Andrew Stephenson MP Victoria Atkins
Sunday Express Better Bones campaign week 41: Victoria Atkins says Women’s Health Hubs are solution to osteoporosis crisis that has left 90,000 without life-changing drugs. But *none* of the Hubs have *any* referral links to Fracture Liaison Services…Lesley Regan Maria Caulfield MP 🫤