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'...
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.
by Dr Ëlo Luik
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'...
Breast cancer patients seeking NHS-funded fertility treatment are facing a postcode lottery to access the service...
Relationship status and body mass index (BMI) are being used to restrict people's access to NHS-funded fertility treatment...
by Liam Davis
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...
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...
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...
UK health minister Matt Hancock has said Clinical Commissioning Groups should not be determining the level of access to NHS fertility services...
North-east Essex could be reinstating free IVF treatment on the NHS after a controversial decision to withdraw treatment...
A petition to Parliament to tackle the national discrepancies in NHS IVF provision has been closed due to the upcoming UK general election...
The Teenage Cancer Trust has recommended that the negative effect of cancer treatments on fertility needs to be better communicated to patients...
BioNews, published by the Progress Educational Trust (PET), provides news and comment on genetics, assisted conception, embryo/stem cell research and related areas.