In the news items below – which were originally broadcast by ITV News and BBC Look East – Sarah Norcross, director of the Progress Educational Trust (which publishes BioNews), discusses plans by a Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to reinstate NHS-funded IVF.
Since these interviews were conducted, North East Essex CCG has confirmed its decision to reinstate funding. Sarah has been quoted welcoming this decision in the region's Daily Gazette newspaper.
If you can't see the films embedded above, you can watch them on YouTube.
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