Focus on GPs checking Bone Health 

Healthy Bones Australia (HBA) continues to reach GPs around Australia via education conferences, hosted by HealthEd. GPs work at the forefront of osteoporosis diagnosis and care, and providing evidence-based and updated resources to doctors nationally is vital.

The HBA Position Statement on the Management of Osteoporosis addresses common queries received from GPs. This important education resource has been distributed to over 8,000 health professionals in 2026, along with the RACGP Summary Flowchart (a snapshot of patient risk factors for investigation) distributed via HBA booths.

HBA advocates for the early diagnosis of osteoporosis, as this remains critical to capturing poor bone health and reducing unwanted fractures.

For any adults over 50 years who have recovered from a fracture (resulting from a fall, trip or minor incident), HBA encourages these individuals to speak with their GP about having their underlying bone health checked. 

HBA Medical Director Prof Peter Wong says, “our hospital system does an excellent job repairing broken bones, but we want GPs to then be checking why that happened…was it due to osteoporosis? Once we know, we can take action.”  

Currently over 200,000 ‘minimal trauma’ fractures occur annually.

Prof Wong added “Don’t assume a fracture was just unlucky. We need to diagnose and treat osteoporosis to reduce the risk of future fractures.”