The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7344 p410
9 April 2005

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Funding for osteoporosis

The Department of Health has announced £20m extra funding for osteoporosis service improvements and dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scanners. Bone density scanning is usually performed in hospitals, but portable DXA scanners have previously been used in an osteoporosis screening pilot in a pharmacy in North-East London (Medicines Management 2002;[5]:5). The pilot was not rolled out on a larger scale due to lack of funding.