Queen presents award for osteoporosis at Clarence House

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The Queen presented the first Queen’s Award for Osteoporosis during a reception at Clarence House. The Award is given to an individual in recognition for an outstanding contribution to research in the field of osteoporosis. At the reception, Her Majesty - who is President of the Royal Osteoporosis Society - thanked campaigners and encouraged them to   continue their work to raise awareness for patients with the condition.    Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Hello, how are you? Very nice to meet you. I know you did a fantastic job of giving more

00:17awareness to the external crisis. It did make a huge difference because people don't know

00:22about it. We would never have got the Franchise Liaison

00:25It was a big team effort and if we weren't handling it all together it would have been

00:30a disaster. Well it was brilliant. I'm glad we got a result in the end. It was incredibly

00:35on-going. We're going to change the title now from Better Bones to Better Bones for

00:41Life. Awareness campaign. Telling people how to detect and prevent. So what brought you

00:48into thinking about it in the first place? Well it was just when we were just catching

00:54around and talking about the answer sheet. And your grandmother had an answer sheet?

00:59Yes, she had me there and somebody mentioned it and we got into it.

01:05No, because I think it's so important to tell young people. It's just, well it's brilliant.

01:12Thank you very much indeed. And Susan needs no introduction at all.

01:18I just felt that on my face as I walked across your carpet. You know there's little bits

01:23like this. But I didn't break a bone. Oh you didn't? Just now? Yes, just now.

01:29And you didn't break a bone? I did not break a bone.

01:34That's the most important. You're in the right company of course if you did.

01:39How are you? Very nice to meet you. Lovely to meet you.

01:45Ruth is the business editor of the Daily Mail and has run the War on Osteoporosis campaign

01:51for six months. Yes.

01:53I've seen your coverage. Oh thank you. Well I'm so proud to meet you

01:58and I just want to say thank you for everything you do because there's still such a stigma.

02:04It's still such a stigma. I mean all those years ago, I mean nobody talked about it at

02:10all. I went to the doctor and they said you're old. It's just getting old. So you know when

02:16I first started we had two people in the Osteoporosis Society when I went to visit them in Bath

02:23the first time and you know they were really fighting against all odds to get their message

02:29out. So we've sort of built it up now. I don't know how many people we've got now Craig.

02:3421,000. 21,000.

02:36That's so important for mothers and daughters isn't it? My mum doesn't have osteoporosis,

02:40I have. Have you ever been checked? No.

02:43No? That's the thing because nobody was checked in your generation. Nobody was ever checked.

02:50Nobody knew anything about it. That is the problem and still is the problem.

02:56Poor old people and then you say young people are now being diagnosed which I suspect would

03:02have happened in your generation but nobody checked so nobody knew. At least you can do

03:09something about it. I hear so and your mum wasn't old.

03:12No. And that's the terrible thing. I just hope

03:15that we can prevent that happening to more people. I'm so sorry what happened.

03:19It's so important for doctors to realise when people go into surgery with a broken bone

03:26if they go in twice they have to have a dexterity scan because that is the way of detecting

03:34and now luckily we've got a lot more dexterity scans. I mean they were unheard of.

03:40She was probably about six or seven inches and in the end she couldn't do anything.

03:47This is what people don't understand isn't it?

03:49Yes. I think some people thought I was making a fuss about nothing and it's because people

03:54don't think it's something else or they don't realise how serious it is and fourth because

04:00of premature death I think. It's not the actual disease.

04:04No it's the fractures. And the loss of confidence.

04:09Pleased to meet you. Thank you.

04:39We have made progress.

04:52Hello, how are you?

05:09How are you doing?

05:11How are you?

08:06It's my pleasure to recommend to Her Majesty that you should be the first recipient of

08:23the Queen's Award.

08:48I just say a few words before you all go. Well, first of all, I want to congratulate

08:54all the winners of the awards. Nikki, who's been a star for so many years, she's been

09:00involved for 30 years, I've only been involved for 23, by a few years, but you do such a

09:08wonderful job. Please keep up doing it. I don't know what we'd do without you. Also

09:14a huge thanks to the Sunday Express and the Daily Mail for all their help because it really

09:21has put osteoporosis on the map. All I can say, can I just plead with you to keep going

09:28because people do read it and they do listen, so it makes an enormous difference to a lot

09:35of people who would otherwise go undiagnosed. Speaking from experience, 23 years ago my

09:43mother died of osteoporosis, not of the actual disease. She died because it was never diagnosed

09:50in those days and old people were just cast aside as old people. Sorry, we can't do anything

09:58about it. Had she lived nowadays, a lot would have been done about it. It's thanks to everybody

10:08here that so much is being done for osteoporosis and I can't tell you how much it's appreciated,

10:15not only by myself but by millions of others across the world. So thank you very much indeed.

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