PRESS RELEASES

March 2024

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

February 2024

Fertility Network UK welcomes move to widen access to NHS-funded fertility treatment in Northern Ireland 

January 2024

Fertility Network UK responds to 2024 Women’s Health Strategy 

December 2023

Fertility Network UK responds to Wales Fertility Institute closure concerns 

October 2023

Press Release: 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, says national charity Fertility Network UK

Press Release: Fertility Network UK responds to the HFEA’s updated treatment add-ons rating system

September 2023

Press Release: Fertility Network UK plans campaign for change during this year’s Fertility Week    

Press Release: Fertility Network UK supports HFEA’s #WhoIsMyDonor campaign

Press Release: Fertility Network UK support the Welsh NHS Confederation’s call for conversation on future of nation’s health

Press Release: Response to HFEA report on the ‘State of the Fertility Sector’


March 2023

Press Release: Fertility Network warns Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent’s proposed interim fertility policy is the worst in UK

Press release: Forward thinking firms recognise supporting reproductive health at work is good for business as well as staff


February 2023

Press release: Welsh fertility plan severely detrimental to patients and a major step backwards warns national charity Fertility Network UK


January 2023

Press release: Fertility Network UK warns on proposed Welsh fertility policy changes


October 2022

Press release: Impact on fertility and fertility treatment

Press release: National Fertility Week one week to go

Press release: National Fertility Week one month to go


March 2019

Press release: Herts Valleys reinstates access to NHS fertility services


February 2019

Press release: Fertility Network launches Fertility in the Workplace initiative to support employers and employees

Press release: Fresh hope for fertility patients in South Norfolk


January 2019

Press release: ‘A complete farce’; Fertility Fairness comments on Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale clinical commissioning group cutting from 3 IVF cycles to just 1.

Press release: Fresh hope for childless couples as Fertility Network’s #Scream4IVF petition is presented at 3pm today to Prime Minister Theresa May


October 2018

Press release: Research by Cardiff University shows how to emotionally support people facing definitive childlessness

Press release: Fertility Week 29 Oct – 4 Nov 2018 #YouAreNotAlone #Scream4IVF #FertilityWeek18

Press release: Male BMI and age, and other arbitrary criteria should not be used to ration access to NHS fertility services, says Fertility Fairness

Press release: #Scream4IVF at Westminster and thunder the walls of Parliament


July 2018

Press release: IVF is 40 – IVF miraculous but risks ahead around fair access for all


March 2018

Press statement: Shattering myths about IVF, fertility and age; Fertility Network UK responds to the HFEA’s Fertility Trends report 2014-2016

Press release: Fertility Fairness Bath & North East Somerset restricts NHS IVF


Feb 2018

Press release Fertility Fairness: Southend slashes NHS IVF; Essex UK’s IVF black spot

Press statement: Impact of cuts to NHS IVF on multiple pregnancies

Press statement: Ibuprofen and future female fertility


January 2018

Press statement: Proposed cuts to NHS IVF in Lancashire and South Cumbria


November 2017

Press release: Male infertility is emasculating, its treatment one-sided and insensitive and emotional support is lacking, first qualitative survey of men’s experiences of fertility problems finds

Survey: men’s experiences of infertility

Press release: #FertilityCycle Brighton


October 2017

Press release Fertility Fairness: Number of CCGs offering 3 IVF cycles halves since 2013

Fertility Fairness: 2017 League Table of the best and worst CCGs in England in terms of provision of NHS IVF

Fertility Fairness: Provision of NHS IVF 2017 Infographic

Fertility Fairness: Provision of NHS IVF 2017 Report

Press release: National Fertility Awareness Week 2017 is here

Press Release: National Fertility Awareness One Week To Go

Press Release: #IVFis40


September 2017

Press Release: Fertility Fairness Cambridgeshire Peterborough CCG suspends NHS IVF


August 2017

Press Release: Fertility Fairness N Ireland IVF deferral plans


July 2017

Press Release: Same Sex Online Fertility Group


June 2017

Press Release: 2017: 40th Anniversary of IVF Success


May 2017

Press Release: Fertility Fairness – Cheshire CCGs cut NHS IVF

Press Release: Fertility Network UK responds to IVF industry investigation


April 2017

Press Release: Let down, a lack of fertility counselling support


March 2017

Press Release: Gold Standard Scotland moves to 3 NHS IVF cycles

Press Release: Fertility Fairness – Croydon 5th CCG to decommission NHS IVF

Press Release: Cambridgeshire & Peterborough plan to cut NHS IVF


February 2017

Press Release: Fertility Network UK Patient Day of Action


January 2017

Press Release: Ipswich and East Suffolk keep NHS IVF


December 2016

Press Release: Unacceptable for fertility patients to be denied medical help

Press Release: The Pants Project

Press Release: Fertility Fairness – Greater Manchester the best place to live in England for NHS fertility treatment

Press Release: Fertility Fairness – Political Briefing 2016


November 2016

Press Release: NHS IVF victory in Bedfordshire welcomed

Press Release: Basildon & Brentwood CCG failing already vulnerable distressed patients

Press Release: Essex NHS IVF blackspot


October 2016

Press Release: Survey on impact of fertility problems