Craig Jones

CEO, Royal Osteoporosis Society; Trustee Motor Neurone Disease Association. Travel obsessive - 111 countries in. Prof & personal views. 🩻✈️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Royal Osteoporosis Society @RoyalOsteoSoc]

Our CEO Craig Jones has shared a special message for Volunteers’ Week, thanking the incredible volunteers who help drive our mission forward.

From running support groups and advocating for change, to sharing lived experience that shapes our services, volunteers play a vital role in helping us support the 3.5 million people living with osteoporosis across the UK.

Thank you for standing shoulder to shoulder with us and offering so much support 🩷 #VolunteersWeek

[Royal Osteoporosis Society @RoyalOsteoSoc]

Tune in to Iain Dale/LBC from 7pm tonight. Our CEO Craig Jones is discussing the two-year delay to Fracture Liaison Services - 2,000 lives are lost every year @jamesmurray_ldn @SharonHodgsonMP @DHSCgovuk

https://t.co/42jXImMOig

[Craig Jones @CraigJonesROS]

I’ll be on @LBC with @IainDale at 7.45pm to discuss the consequences of the two year delay to Fracture Liaison Services. Every year the Government waits to fulfil their pledge, another 2,000 people with osteoporosis die unnecessarily. Appealing to @jamesmurray_ldn and @SharonHodgsonMP to rescue this life-saving policy.

[Royal Osteoporosis Society @RoyalOsteoSoc]

Listen back to our CEO Craig Jones on Woman’s Hour today talking about the two-year delay to Fracture Liaison Services - with 2,000 lives per year at stake @jamesmurray_ldn @SharonHodgsonMP timestamp 32:30.
https://t.co/VQ2dxfOwIK

[Craig Jones @CraigJonesROS]

I’ll be on Women’s Hour at 10am talking about the two year delay to Fracture Liaison Services. 4,000 people have died since the election following hip fractures a timely rollout would have prevented. Women hoping for @SharonHodgsonMP & @jamesmurray_ldn to rescue the policy. @DHSCgovuk

[Craig Jones @CraigJonesROS]

Osteoporotic fractures cost employers £142m a year in sickness costs and are associated with 1.5m sick days every year.
@jamesmurray_ldn, this is a prevention win waiting to happen.

[Craig Jones @CraigJonesROS]

Alan Milburn’s review is focused on young people, but the lesson is wider: health policy is now participation policy.
For people over 50, Fracture Liaison Services can prevent avoidable fractures, reduce NHS pressure and help people stay active. (1/2)

[Royal Osteoporosis Society @RoyalOsteoSoc]

Yesterday, Lord Black urged the Government not just to restate its commitment to universal FLS by 2030, but to take action, with a timetable, resources and the start of delivery, so we can save lives, money and tackle inequalities @jamesmurray_ldn @SharonHodgsonMP

[Craig Jones @CraigJonesROS]

Huge congratulations to @jamesmurray_ldn in becoming Health Secretary. I knew James through local politics in Islington and always found him kind, thoughtful and exceptionally strong on policy. Everyone at the Royal Osteoporosis Society looks forward to working with him.

[Craig Jones @CraigJonesROS]

@Eluned_Morgan was the first leader to take osteoporosis seriously and committed her government to getting on top of it by 2030. Officials were proactive because she said this was important. Thank you for your leadership, Eluned. @WelshLabour

[Craig Jones @CraigJonesROS]

Eluned Morgan, @PrifWeinidog , was the first leader to take osteoporosis seriously and committed her government to getting on top of it by 2030. Officials were proactive because she said this was important. Thank you for your leadership, Eluned. @WelshLabour

[Craig Jones @CraigJonesROS]

I'll be speaking on BBC London's Eddie Nestor show at 1130 about how 2,000 lives per year depend on the government's pledge to roll out Fracture Liaison Services being honoured. @wesstreeting @SharonHodgsonMP

[Royal Osteoporosis Society @RoyalOsteoSoc]

Mail on Sunday War on Osteoporosis campaign: Jane lived for years with undiagnosed bone loss - suffering multiple debilitating fractures. Here she spells out how many lives depend on @wesstreeting @SharonHodgsonMP honouring their promise to roll out Fracture Liaison Services. #63promises

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Sunday Express Better Bones week 91: Dr Nicky Peel writes powerfully: “After two years of waiting, people with osteoporosis are entitled to ask: is this a real commitment - or false hope?"
A response to Minister @SharonHodgsonMP’s remarks on Wednesday.
@wesstreeting

[Craig Jones @CraigJonesROS]

Sunday Express Better Bones week 91: Dr Nicky Peel writes powerfully: “After two years of waiting, people with osteoporosis are entitled to ask: is this a real commitment - or false hope?
A response to Minister @SharonHodgsonMP remarks on Wednesday. @wesstreeting

[Craig Jones @CraigJonesROS]

@wesstreeting Devolution without accountability risks widening NHS inequalities. When national commitments rely on local discretion alone, delivery stalls and postcode lotteries persist. Where the system consistently fails ppl, we need elected leaders to step in. @SharonHodgsonMP

[Royal Osteoporosis Society @RoyalOsteoSoc]

Writing in @HSJnews, Craig Jones says: “Fractures are among the leading cause of disability and premature death in the UK. The root cause is a stark postcode lottery in access to early diagnosis services - called Fracture Liaison Services - with half of NHS trusts in England lacking provision. This is not a failure of medicine, it is a failure of delivery”

A promise has been made 63 times by ministers - and with 2,000 lives at stake every year of delay - we're calling on them to deliver on that promise.

@wesstreeting
@SharonHodgsonMP

[Royal Osteoporosis Society @RoyalOsteoSoc]

What does delivery actually look like in practice?

This week, @CSWnews highlighted the gap between ambition and implementation on osteoporosis early diagnosis services.

Over 2 years since the commitment, a funded delivery plan still hasn’t been published by @wesstreeting and @SharonHodgsonMP.

https://t.co/3rYiZfDcg1

[Craig Jones @CraigJonesROS]

Calling on @wesstreeting and @SharonHodgsonMP to resolve this delivery gap. We can still make this common sense prevention policy a success of the government.

[Civil Service World @CSWnews]

England is falling behind as other countries roll out life-saving osteoporosis services.

Professor Neil Gittoes at the @RoyalOsteoSoc calls on the government to catch up with a national plan.

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https://t.co/r7T3iysnN8

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Since the election, clinicians across the NHS have called on ministers to honour their promise of early diagnosis clinics for people with osteoporosis. Two years on, there is still no plan for delivery.

Read Nicky Peel's article in todays Telegraph to learn more: https://t.co/jBbe64Vg3B

@wesstreeting
@SharonHodgsonMP