Somerset cuts IVF funding to one cycle only
Somerset CCG has announced that its provision of NHS-funded IVF will be reduced from two cycles to one...
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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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Third of GPs back end to NHS IVF funding
A third of general practitioners believe that the NHS should not fund IVF treatment, according to a recent poll...
'Worrying' trend in NHS IVF provision
The number of CCGs in England offering the recommended number of IVF cycles to its patients is falling, with two CCGs in Essex decommissioning their assisted conception services altogether...
North East Essex CCG cuts IVF funding
North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group has announced that it is ending its IVF funding, and fertility treatment will only be available to specific groups of patients...
Unexplained infertility - inexplicable guidelines
The recommendation in the 2013 NICE guideline to exclude IUI as a treatment option is based on flimsy, and sometimes mistakenly interpreted, evidence...
The picture doesn’t have to look like this
In England, the IVF postcode lottery impacts on every different level of a patient's NHS treatment in a myriad of ways. Not only is there widespread variation in who can access treatment and the number of IVF cycles available, but even in how a cycle is defined...
Offer three IVF cycles now, Scottish Government told
A charity has called for all NHS Boards in Scotland to move towards offering eligible patients three full cycles of IVF...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
The good, the bad and the ugly: compassion and corruption in the commercial baby business
Are business and medicine hopelessly intertwined in fertility care, at (quite literally) the expense of the patient?...
Another U-turn as York agrees to fund IVF
The NHS Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group has agreed to fund one cycle of IVF, having at one time been the only CCG not to offer the treatment at all after funding was suspended in 2010....
NICE releases fertility quality standard, says postcode lottery is 'completely unacceptable'
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a quality standard that aims to bring an end to a 'postcode lottery' in the provision of fertility services on the NHS, which it says is restricting access to treatment....