A community service designed to help people with osteoporosis avoid secondary fragility fractures is seeing great results

‘Osteoporosis is the “unseen” long-term condition,’ says clinical nurse specialist lead Donna Rowe. It is common for older patients presenting with a hip fracture to have a prior, unrecognised fragility fracture, she says, meaning underlying osteoporosis can go untreated. Even when the disease is identified, oral treatment regimes are poorly tolerated and patient compliance is low.