This film documents the Progress Educational Trust event 'An All-Consuming Problem? How to Protect Patients in the Fertility Market'.
The event focuses on guidance for the fertility sector drafted by the UK Government's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
If you can't see the film embedded above, you can watch it on YouTube.
| Introduction | |
| 0:00:00 | Sarah Norcross Director, Progress Educational Trust |
| Presentations | |
| 0:04:19 | Dr Louise Strong Director of Consumer Protection, CMA |
| 0:13:36 | Clare Ettinghausen Director of Strategy and Corporate Affairs, HFEA |
| 0:20:32 | Dr Raj Mathur Chair, British Fertility Society |
| 0:30:04 | Mark Wilcox Group Medical Director, CARE Fertility |
| 0:39:40 | Katy Lindemann Advocate and commentator on infertility and childlessness |
| Discussion | |
| 0:49:03 | Responses to audience questions and comments |
This film was made by Video Production Edinburgh.
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