Investigation reveals barriers to lesbian couples seeking fertility treatment
An investigation into NHS-funded fertility care across the UK has revealed hidden barriers for female same-sex couples...
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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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Cambridgeshire CCG to review IVF policy
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group has announced it will be reviewing its 2017 decision to discontinue funding for IVF treatment...
Levelling up in London?
If you're a fertility patient in the London borough of Camden you're one of the more fortunate Londoners in terms of access to NHS-funded fertility treatment....
An All-Consuming Problem? How to Protect Patients in the Fertility Market
The first online event held by the Progress Educational Trust (PET) in 2021 was 'An All-Consuming Problem? How to Protect Patients in the Fertility Market'...
IVF postcode lottery for breast cancer patients
Breast cancer patients seeking NHS-funded fertility treatment are facing a postcode lottery to access the service...
Relationship status and BMI used to determine access to IVF
Relationship status and body mass index (BMI) are being used to restrict people's access to NHS-funded fertility treatment...
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Book Review: The Law of Assisted Reproduction
In this updated second edition of The Law of Assisted Reproduction, author Seamus Burns, Senior Lecturer in Law at Sheffield Hallam University, aimed to highlight the major features of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Act 2008 just over a decade since its inception, and eight years since the first edition of his book was published...
Improving choices for fertility patients during a pandemic
We welcome the UK government's two-year extension to the legal limit on the storage of eggs, sperm and embryos, but more needs to be done for fertility patients during and after the coronavirus pandemic...
Manchester IVF clinic at risk of closure amid increasing privatisations
The UK's first fully funded NHS IVF clinic is at risk of closure after it was revealed that the hospital cannot afford a much-needed £10m refurbishment...
National standards needed for IVF cycles, says health minister
UK health minister Matt Hancock has said Clinical Commissioning Groups should not be determining the level of access to NHS fertility services...