This film documents the PET event 'Fertility Treatment and Stress: Patients, Practitioners and Outcomes', produced in partnership with the Scottish Government.
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 | |
| 0:01:08 | Dr Sinéad Currie Lead, Scottish Preconception Health Research Network |
| 0:09:46 | Angela Pericleous-Smith Chair, British Infertility Counselling Association |
| 0:22:45 | Dr Angela Lawson Clinical and Forensic Psychologist |
| 0:41:24 | Emma Haslett Co-Host, Big Fat Negative |
| Discussion | |
| 0:52:51 | Responses to audience questions and comments |
This film was made by Video Production Edinburgh.
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