This film documents the Progress Educational Trust event 'More Trouble in Store? The Two-Year Extension to Embryo and Gamete Storage Limits'.
If you are interested in this topic, please consider signing and sharing PET's #ExtendTheLimit petition, calling for a permanent extension to the UK storage limit for eggs frozen for non-medical reasons.
If you can't see the film embedded above, you can watch it on YouTube.
| Introduction | |
| 00:00 | Sarah Norcross Director, Progress Educational Trust |
| Presentation | |
| 03:45 | James Lawford Davies Partner, Hill Dickinson |
| Discussion | |
| 21:48 | Responses to audience questions and comments |
| Close | |
| 51:18 | Sarah Norcross Director, Progress Educational Trust |
This film was made by Video Production Edinburgh.
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