Fall in NHS-funded IVF cycles
The average age that women start fertility treatment has risen as the total number of fertility cycles funded by the NHS has fallen...
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CCG (Clinical Commissioning Group)
Set up by the Health and Social Care Act 2012, CCGs are responsible for the commissioning of most hospital and community NHS services in local areas. CCGs replaced Primary Care Trusts from April 2013 and are overseen by NHS England. All GP practices now belong to CCGs.
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Wegan withdraws legal case against Frimley ICB
Fertility equality campaigners have decided to withdraw their application for a judicial review of a policy affecting same-sex female couples against their local NHS commissioners...
ICBs fail to improve NHS fertility treatment access, despite Women's Health Strategy
Just three out of 42 Integrated Care Boards are offering the recommended three full NHS-funded IVF cycles across their entire area, analysis by the Progress Educational Trust has shown...
ICB proposes reducing NHS fertility treatment despite Women's Health Strategy
The Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board has proposed a single policy for access to NHS-funded fertility treatment for the area, that will see access for some residents reduced...
Mid and South Essex ICB standardises IVF access
Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board has made access to NHS-funded IVF consistent across the area, following a review...
Bristol will offer NHS fertility services to single women and transgender people
Transgender patients and other patients who receive treatment that may impact their fertility, will be able to access fertility preservation funded by the NHS in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire for the first time...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Women's Health Strategy outlines plans to improve fertility treatment access
The Government has unveiled plans to allow female same-sex couples to access six rounds of insemination, ahead of IVF, on the NHS...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
North Central London ICB updates fertility policy
North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB) has introduced a new single fertility policy, commencing today, that enables those eligible, and under 40, to have three cycles of IVF and six embryos transferred under NHS funding. Emily Vine reports...
