Wegan withdraws legal case against Frimley ICB
Fertility equality campaigners have decided to withdraw their application for a judicial review of a policy affecting same-sex female couples against their local NHS commissioners...
Set up by the Health and Social Care Act 2012, CCGs are responsible for the commissioning of most hospital and community NHS services in local areas. CCGs replaced Primary Care Trusts from April 2013 and are overseen by NHS England. All GP practices now belong to CCGs.
Fertility equality campaigners have decided to withdraw their application for a judicial review of a policy affecting same-sex female couples against their local NHS commissioners...
by Luke Steventon and 1 others
Just three out of 42 Integrated Care Boards are offering the recommended three full NHS-funded IVF cycles across their entire area, analysis by the Progress Educational Trust has shown...
The Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board has proposed a single policy for access to NHS-funded fertility treatment for the area, that will see access for some residents reduced...
Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board has made access to NHS-funded IVF consistent across the area, following a review...
by Hannah Flynn
Transgender patients and other patients who receive treatment that may impact their fertility, will be able to access fertility preservation funded by the NHS in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire for the first time...
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by Hannah Flynn
The Government has unveiled plans to allow female same-sex couples to access six rounds of insemination, ahead of IVF, on the NHS...
by Emily Vine
North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB) has introduced a new single fertility policy, commencing today, that enables those eligible, and under 40, to have three cycles of IVF and six embryos transferred under NHS funding. Emily Vine reports...
Less than half of CCGs in England specify gender affirmative hormonal or surgical treatment as a reason to qualify for fertility preservation, a national audit has shown...
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