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.
As a consultant clinician working in one of the four NHS tertiary fertility units in Scotland, I was somewhat surprised to read the objection from the Association of Clinical Embryologists about proposed plans to devolve legislative powers for fertility treatment to the Scottish Government...
The Association of Clinical Embryologists is concerned that proposals to devolve powers for forming legislation covering the provision of fertility treatment, genetic screening and abortion to the Scottish Parliament may be a step too far in the process of devolution...
Research conducted by the campaign group Fertility Fairness has uncovered significant variations in the amount that NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups are paying for one cycle of IVF treatment....
In the UK, clinical commissioners seem to view the national recommendations on fertility treatment as a sort of à la carte menu from which they can pick and choose; altering the definition of a cycle, the age requirements, the number of cycles available, and the access criteria at will...
The Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group has agreed in principle to fund IVF treatment for couples in the area, although a formal decision on the matter will be made at a later date....
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has published a set of draft statements that aim to 'eliminate' current geographical disparities in access to fertility treatment...
In the recent case of R (on the application of Elizabeth Rose) v Thanet CCG, in which I was instructed by Elizabeth Rose, the High Court was asked to consider whether a policy denying funding for cryopreservation of oocytes — a treatment recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) — was lawful....
A Crohn's disease patient is challenging a decision to refuse her funding for her eggs to be cryopreserved before she undergoes a bone marrow transplant and chemotherapy...
In 2011, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Infertility found that over 70 percent of NHS Primary Care Trusts were not providing the recommended three full cycles of IVF to eligible couples. Three years later, there has been a very real and very disappointing lack of progress...
A recent survey carried out by the National Infertility Awareness Campaign (NIAC) found that 73 percent of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are not funding the recommended cycles of IVF treatment....
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