ROS publishes its Agenda and Priorities for 2025

As we step into 2025, the Royal Osteoporosis Society (ROS) is very pleased to unveil our objectives and priorities for the year ahead.  Building on three years of progress under our Breaking the Silence strategy, we’re scaling up our mission to transform bone health and ensure a better future for the millions of people affected by osteoporosis. This pivotal year will see us drive universal access to life-saving Fracture Liaison Services (FLS), launch The Great British Bone Check, and introduce innovative support services to empower individuals with osteoporosis.

“In the fourth year of our strategy, we’ll scale up our work to get early diagnosis services (Fracture Liaison Services) set up across the four nations, building on Government pledges for universal coverage. This is just the start, and our world-leading research agenda will make the case for a National Screening Programme to prevent the first fracture too in future. As we gear up for our 40th anniversary, we’ll launch The Great British Bone Check, our biggest ever public-facing campaign, as well as two brand new support services. 

This work is only possible thanks to the generosity of our members and supporters.  We pledge to leave no stone unturned in tackling osteoporosis head-on and putting it at the top of the health agenda, so lives can be changed for the better”.

— Craig Jones, Chief Executive, Royal Osteoporosis Society

Corporate objectives and measures for 2025

Prevention

1. We’ll partner up with five well known businesses to launch ‘The Great British Bone Check’, so a million people can check their bone health risk by the end of 2026.

2. We’ll drive the national conversation about bone health by increasing the value of our media coverage by a further 15% and our digital engagement by 25%.

Influencing care

3. We’ll continue our ambitious work to prevent people’s first fracture. This will include ground-breaking research to develop the world’s first screening programme to find and treat people who are at high risk. 

4. We’ve succeeded in getting Fracture Liaison Services mandated in England and Wales to catch people after their first fracture. This year, we’ll support at least six Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) to set up high-quality services, as part of a strong first wave of the national rollout.

5. Our All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) will conduct an Inquiry into the changes needed to incentivise better quality services for osteoporosis in primary care. We’ll hold an event in the Northern Ireland Assembly to persuade policy-makers to mandate and fund universal FLS in the province.

Support and Equity

6. We’ll launch our ground-breaking new medication support programme, giving 15,000 people crucial help with their medication. Meanwhile, our Osteoporosis Connect project will expand the reach of our online and offline communities, supporting people 90,000 times. 

7. We’ll help people with osteoporosis get on top of the condition by launching two brand new, high-impact support services.

Read our year four objectives.