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The #CryingShame for Fertility Fundraising Campaign highlights the isolation, shame, depression, anxiety and tears that accompany the one in six couples in the UK who struggle to conceive each year. We are raising money to enable everyone who is struggling with their mental health and well being during fertility issues,…

A ‘POSTCODE lottery’ in IVF treatment has been accused of having a ‘devastating’ impact on couples struggling to have children in Oxfordshire. Emily Scott and her husband Ben from Abingdon had been trying to get pregnant for three years when they realised something may be wrong and discussed options with…

Would-be parents in Cambridgeshire are devastated after a decision on whether to reinstate free IVF services has been put back. The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Cinical Commissioning Group (CPCCG) suspended NHS-funded IVF in September 2017, and had been due to make a decision on reinstating it on Tuesday (May 14). But a statement…

major consultation is set to be ordered into NHS-funded IVF treatments offered to couples desperate for a child - to end one of the health service's most controversial postcode lotteries. All five of Staffordshire's clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) only offer one cycle of IVF per patient. And that rises to…

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…

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…

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…

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…