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Ludo Thierry

Meanwhile Baroness Bull – No – Not the one you’re thinking of (no Buffalo riders here) – This Baroness Bull is the rather wonderful former Principal Ballerina Deborah Bull who sits as a cross-bencher and is the Patron of the Osteoporosis Society. On their behalf she is pushing in the HoL’s for NHS England and NHS Wales to come into line with NHS Scotland and introduce a Fracture Liaison Service (shown to save lives). Curious how – with all that scrutiny they selflessly devote to matters NHS Scotland – beeb Scotland have managed to miss this story. Link and snippet below:

https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/health-and-care/social-care/opinion/royal-osteoporosis-society/110194/healthcare-inequity

Hip fractures are experienced by over 66,000 people a year and take up one in 45 hospital beds in England and Northern Ireland, and one in 33 beds in Wales. They are preventable when the less traumatic fractures that precede them, such as fractures to the wrist, are promptly acted on and people with osteoporosis are provided with bone protecting treatment.

It’s therefore deeply concerning that healthcare inequalities across the country mean that, while everyone living in Scotland and Northern Ireland has access to a fracture liaison service (FLS) to reduce the risk of them experiencing a hip fracture, people in England and Wales are not so fortunate. The result is that in areas where there is no FLS, hospitals continue to experience higher-than-average mortality rates for patients who have sustained hip fractures.

That’s what we’re achieving with Devo – just think what beneficial changes we could achieve with Indy?