A Primary Care Trust is an English National Health Service (NHS) organisation that provides some primary care (e.g. doctor's surgery/office) and some community (e.g. community nursing) services.
A survey conducted by the Infertility Network UK (I N UK) and sponsored by the UK Department of Health (DH) has shown that the provision of IVF treatment in the UK does not meet government guidelines. The survey indicated that provision of NHS fertility treatment is patchy...
A report published by the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Infertility has highlighted the need for greater funding for infertility treatment on the National Health Service (NHS). The UK National Infertility Awareness Campaign (NIAC) has welcomed the report, as part of its continued campaign to end the current...
A report has revealed that couples receive varied IVF treatment across UK Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), despite guidelines issued by the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence in 2004 that all women between the age of 23 and 39 years old should receive three cycles of...
UK MPs have questioned the restrictive lower age limit policies practised by increasing numbers of NHS healthcare providers, which prevent women accessing IVF until they are in their late thirties - when chances for the treatment's success dramatically decrease to an average of 15 per cent. Meanwhile, some...
It is now been an incredibly long three years since the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published the clinical guideline on fertility. It is also an incredibly long two years since all Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) should have made at least one cycle of in vitro...
A survey conducted by a UK newspaper, The Independent, has revealed that nine out of ten NHS Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) have failed to deliver their pledge of three free IVF treatments for infertile couples, as recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE...
The media storm over the British Fertility Society's statement on social values took us all by surprise. We had issued a press release about a forthcoming paper in the journal Human Fertility, commenting on the lack of implementation of NICE fertility guidance by Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), and making some...
The British Fertility Society (BFS) has issued an independent report stating that access to fertility treatment in the UK is still unequal and governed by a 'postcode lottery'. The BFS conducted a survey of 64 fertility clinics in England and Wales, receiving responses from 37, which...
BioNews reporting from ESHRE conference, Prague (sponsored by Planer cryoTechnology). By Dr Kirsty Horsey: Europe's increasing demographic crisis could be helped by providing free fertility treatment to more women, says RAND Europe, an independent research organisation, at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE...
The UK's North Lincolnshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) has said that no new couples will be referred for IVF treatment until at least next April. It has decided to suspend the provision of fertility treatment services in order to save money - it is estimated that the...
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