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Fertility in the Workplace launches Clinic Pledge

Bourn Hall, in partnership with FNUK, pioneers initiative to help patients juggle work and fertility treatment Employees struggling with fertility challenges often express concerns that treatment could impact their career prospects and affect their productivity at work. To help juggle workplace commitments alongside medical appointments, Fertility Network UK is encouraging…

Fertility Network UK appoints Interim CEO

The board of trustees at Fertility Network UK are thrilled to appoint Sharon Martin as Interim CEO. Sharon has been Head of Grants and Business Development at Fertility Network UK for seven years and has supported the charity in forging crucial relationships with external partners to help drive the mission…

We’re heading to The Fertility Show!

We are delighted to announce we will be at @thefertilityshow, taking place on 18th – 19th May at Olympia London 🙌 Come and meet the FNUK team and get the support you need on your route to parenthood. Join expert talks, interviews and panels with the world’s leading fertility experts, plus…

World’s first IVF clinic Bourn Hall partners with national charity Fertility Network UK to help more employers implement ‘fertility fairness’ in their workplace

The world’s first IVF clinic, Bourn Hall, is joining forces with the UK’s national fertility charity, Fertility Network UK, on their Fertility in the Workplace (FiTW) initiative, which helps firms support staff experiencing fertility struggles.  “One in six people have difficulties conceiving, and all are of working age. Infertility impacts…

Staffing update 

Message from the Board of Trustees

Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent approve fertility policy that is the worst in UK

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent integrated care board (ICB) has approved a new interim fertility policy which offers the bare minimum of NHS-funded help – just one embryo transfer for women aged 23-40 – and makes accessing NHS fertility treatment harder or impossible for other groups. The new policy comes into force…

Coping with Christmas when you have fertility issues

Is there a best way to face the festive season when it fills you with dread? Here are some tips

Can you help with some important research about Trauma in Infertility?

This survey is open to those who have been diagnosed with infertility, are undergoing, or have had treatment within the last 5 years across the UK and Ireland and we want you to have your say. If you feel this is relevant to you, we would very much appreciate you…

Fertility patients priced out of becoming parents and pressured into unwelcome and potentially risky treatment choices by cost-of-living crisis and lack of NHS-funded care

At the start of Fertility Week 2023, Fertility Network releases survey on how the cost-of-living crisis is impacting fertility patients

Search on for new Fertility Network UK chief executive

Fertility Network UK is looking for a new permanent CEO

Breaking News! – First UK Womb Transplant

This is an historic moment – the first womb transplant in the UK. It’s a wonderful, exciting step forward in science and, for fertility medicine, it’s the dawn of a new era.

National Fertility Awareness Week; 30th Oct – 5th Nov 2023

#Fighting4Fertility Join us during Fertility Week 2023 30 Oct – 5 November 2023 1 in 6 people in the UK face fertility issues, and our aim is to make sure everyone on a fertility journey, whatever the stage they’re at, has the support and information they need. Join us, amplify…

Hertfordshire & West Essex ICB Fertility Under Review – Have Your Say!

Hertfordshire & West Essex ICB is carrying out a review of its policy on specialist fertility treatment.  All policies need review from time to time and this particular one was due for a review in 2022. An extension was agreed to September 2023 which is why we are now seeking…

Frimley ICB will be changing its policy on access to NHS-funded fertility treatment for female same-sex couples

Fertility Network congratulates @whatwegandidnext for their tenacity & courage in challenging this unfair policy... they've done an incredible job of raising awareness of the terrible financial hurdle female same-sex couples face when they're hoping to start a family. Frimley Integrated Care Board hasn't said yet how it is going to…

Update on proposed Welsh fertility policy changes

The Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee (WHSSC) has provided an update on its proposed changes to fertility treatment in Wales. Thank you to everyone who responded to the consultation earlier this year. The WHSSC is now in the process of considering all the responses and comments it received, and this…

Could you be a Fertility Network board trustee?

We're looking for trustees to help shape our future as we celebrate our 20th anniversary.

Update on the proposed changes to fertility treatment in Wales

Update from Llais Cymru on the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee (WHSSC) proposed changes to fertility treatment in Wales

Fertility Network is hiring!

Could you be our Communications & Content Manager for six months and help us celebrate our 20th birthday?

Hope & female choice at heart of Fertility Trends report, but concerns about falling NHS IVF

Hope and female choice are at the heart of a striking Fertility Trends 2021 report, but too many fertility patients are paying for their own medical care; says UK’s national fertility charity, Fertility Network UK, in response to the HFEA’s 2021 Fertility Trends report