NHS IVF cycles cut across Manchester
NHS Greater Manchester has announced plans to cut NHS-funded IVF cycles in four boroughs, standardising provision across the region to one cycle for eligible patients...
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Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
Fertility preservation: Cancer survivors are being let down by NHS IVF policy
Bethany Harman explains that her fiancé Ben had his sperm frozen six years ago, before undergoing cancer treatment, and that he and she are now being denied the opportunity to use his frozen sperm for NHS-funded IVF...
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.
NICE publishes draft update to Fertility Guideline
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommends three NHS-funded IVF cycles for those eligible under 40, with potential for three more if unsuccessful, in a proposed guideline update...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
NHS ten-year plan includes ambition to offer genome sequencing for all newborns
The UK Government hopes to offer whole genome sequencing for all newborns in England within the next ten years, building upon the work of the Generation Study...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
New HFEA data – one in 32 UK children now born via IVF
One in every 32 children born in the UK is conceived through IVF, according to the latest figures from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority...