Fertility Fairness and the IVF postcode lottery

The campaign group Fertility Fairness has published data showing that access to publicly funded fertility treatment is inconsistent, and worsening, across England (see BioNews 924).

These findings have received widespread media coverage, with Sarah Norcross - Co-Chair of Fertility Fairness, and Director of the Progress Educational Trust (the charity which publishes BioNews) - giving numerous TV and radio interviews.

Watch Sarah interviewed on Good Morning Britain. (If you cannot see the film below, click here to view it.)

Also watch Sarah interviewed on ITV News, by clicking here.

Sarah has given interviews to more than 10 different local radio stations, discussing the fertility funding situation in their area. Click on the links below to listen to these interviews.

• BBC Radio Leeds
  Interview by Liz Green

• BBC Radio Lincolnshire
  Interview by Scott Dalton

• BBC Radio Northampton
  Interview by Stuart Linnell

• BBC Radio Oxford
  Interview by David Prever

• BBC Radio Sheffield
  Interview by Rob Staton

• BBC Radio Solent
  Interview by Julian Clegg

• BBC Radio Tees
  Interview by Neil Green

• BBC Three Counties Radio
  Interview by Roberto Perrone
  Interview by Jonathan Vernon-Smith

• BBC West Midlands
  Interview by Alex Lester

• BBC Radio Wiltshire Interview by Ben Prater
  Interview by Graham Rogers

• BBC Radio York
  Interview by Joanita Musisi

Sarah has also been quoted in numerous articles about the Fertility Fairness findings. See her quoted in the national media:

• BBC News
  IVF: patients face postcode lottery for treatment

• The Times
  Some NHS regions fail to fund any IVF treatment, report finds

• Daily Mail
  First test tube baby hits out at NHS cuts to IVF

• Independent
  IVF patients 'facing postcode lottery' after NHS budgets slashed

• Daily Telegraph
  NHS IVF access at its worst level for 13 years, report finds

• Huffington Post
  IVF league table reveals postcode lottery for treatment across the UK

And in the local media:

• Bolton News
  Bolton families left behind with fertility treatment as CCG offers one cycle of IVF

• East Anglian Daily Times
  NHS groups in Suffolk and north-east Essex failing to offer couples recommended three IVF cycles

• Lancashire Telegraph
  Blackburn with Darwen and East Lancashire clinical commissioning groups fail to offer would-be-mothers recommended three cycles of IVF

• Shropshire Star
  Campaigners call for more fairness on IVF

• Stoke Sentinel
  Women face postcode lottery for IVF - how many cycles are you entitled to?

• York Press
  NHS not meeting IVF guidelines in region