This film documents the PET event 'IVF Add-Ons: How Should We Score the HFEA's New Ratings System?', which was supported by the British Fertility Society.
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 | |
| 0:04:37 | Dr Tim Child Chair, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's Scientific and Clinical Advances Advisory Committee |
| 0:19:15 | Professor Joyce Harper Professor of Reproductive Science, University College London |
| 0:31:27 | Dr Ippokratis Sarris Director, King's Fertility |
| 0:44:34 | Tracey Sainsbury Fertility Counsellor |
| 0:58:30 | Dr Tasha Alden Patient and researcher |
| 1:08:13 | Dr Tim Child Chair, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's Scientific and Clinical Advances Advisory Committee |
| Discussion | |
| 1:11:55 | Responses to audience questions and comments |
This film was made by Video Production Edinburgh.
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