Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr Harry Burns, will present a blueprint for the future treatment and management of fractures resulting from falls or from osteoporosis at a conference in Edinburgh in May.
The Next Steps conference, to be chaired by Professor Jimmy Hutchison, Regius Professor of Surgery at Aberdeen, will bring together experts from the field of falls, fragility fractures and osteoporosis. It has been organised by a partnership between the National Osteoporosis Society, the Scottish Hip Fracture Audit and the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry Scotland.