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If you or your partner have ever had any of these types of treatment at a clinic in the UK, either NHS or private, we would really appreciate you taking time to give us your honest opinions. Your views are very important and will help us as the national regulator of fertility clinics…

Aileen Feeney, chief executive of leading patient charity Fertility Network, said: ‘Fertility Network wholeheartedly welcomes the HFEA’s report on egg freezing because it is vital that there is increased recognition about the limits of egg freezing and that health professionals and fertility clinics communicate this information clearly to prospective patients.…

WHAT’S UP? The screams of childbirth are loud. But the screams of frustration from not being able to have a child are just as loud. Yet they’re not being heard. THE PROBLEM  1 in 6 couples in the UK experience the pain and devastation of infertility. But 98% of England’s…

Joint statement by the Multiple Births Foundation, British Fertility Society, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, Fertility Network UK and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, on the publication of the National Guideline Alliance report into the costs of multiple pregnancies. The birth of any child is a wonderful occasion…

24 – 26 August 2018, Cardiff Join Fertility Network as we join in the biggest LGBT+ event in Wales. We are at Pride Cymru 2018 to offer free advice, support, help, information and understanding for anyone affected by fertility issues: • for anyone considering their future fertility • for those…

Aileen Feeney, chief executive of Fertility Network UK, said: ‘The IVF story over the last 40 years is miraculous: developments in IVF technologies coupled with improvements in IVF success rates mean an estimated 8 million babies have been born worldwide. But there is a dark, often unacknowledged, side to the…

Fertility Network will be 15 on 5 July 2018 and we'd love you to help us celebrate. Tell us how we have helped you in the last 15 years or how we can in the future and you could receive our birthday present - a pair of tickets to Hampton…

Father’s Day can be one of the most difficult days of the year when you are not a father – by circumstance not choice. It is hard to avoid the wall-to-wall celebration and commercialisation of fatherhood: the adverts on TV, the cards in shops, the posts on social media. If…

Can you help? Aberdeen University and NHS Grampian would like you to participate in their study: “Behaviour Change in Women and Men Experiencing Fertility Problems.” We understand that fertility is an important and sensitive issue for many couples and therefore, it is our aim to find out more about the…

Save the date: come and join Fertility Network for the first London Fertili-tea party on 24 June at 15.30 at the Argyll Arms in Soho. Jessica Hepburn is a guest speaker and Andreia Trigo will be speaking on emotional care, there will be a full afternoon tea, goody bags and…

Medway clinical commissioning group (CCG) is considering cutting access to NHS fertility treatment. Medway CCG currently provides only two partial IVF cycles and is proposing to provide just one partial IVF cycle - one fresh embryo transfer and one frozen embryo transfer. Fertility Network urges patients to take action now…

Bury clinical commissioning group (CCG) will announce its plans regarding access to NHS IVF on 23 May. It is one of only 4 CCGs in England to offer the IVF Gold Standard: 3 full IVF cycles and access if one of the couple has a child from a previous relationship.…

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#makeIVFfair Fertility Network UK supports Steve McCabe MP’s bill to equalise IVF treatment in the UK Aileen Feeney, chief executive of leading patient charity Fertility Network UK said: ‘Fertility Network UK wholeheartedly supports Steve McCabe MP’s call for the Government to treat infertility like any other illness and provide access…

Can you help? If you have experience of fertility treatment can you complete three 15-minute surveys online. This is vital work which is trying to establish the core outcomes (results) for future fertility research - and the researchers are keen to ensure the voices of people with experience of IVF…

Good news, Trafford clinical commissioning group has decided to retain the 1 NHS IVF cycle it currently offers. Commenting on Trafford clinical commissioning group’s (CCG’s) decision to retain the one NHS IVF cycle it offers, Aileen Feeney, co-chair of Fertility Fairness and chief executive of leading patient charity Fertility Network…

Following the Rhythm of Hope retreat early in 2018, one of our supporters kindly wrote about her experience so that others have an opportunity to hear what the day is like. "For those of us who have never attended a retreat day for childfree couples by circumstance this is a…

Save NHS IVF in Trafford. To register your view on Trafford's plans to remove all NHS IVF email [email protected] Trafford will announce its decision on Tue 27 Mar at a public meeting at 9.30am at Crossgate House, Washway Road, Sale, M33 7FT. To attend email [email protected] https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/free-ivf-nhs-scrapped-trafford-14428791 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09w7pb4/north-west-tonight-late-news-19032018 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-43461078 http://www.messengernewspapers.co.uk/news/16101282.Answers_wanted_over_plans_to_scrap_IVF_in_Trafford/…

Commenting on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's (HFEA's) Fertility Trends report 2014-2016, Aileen Feeney, chief executive of leading patient charity Fertility Network UK, said: ‘It is encouraging to see the HFEA’s Fertility Trends report (2014-2016) shattering myths about IVF, fertility and age. IVF is not the preserve of older…