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  • 11th
    Apr
    2012     Egg-sharing IVF - what are your chances of pregnancy?

    Egg-sharing IVF - what are your chances of pregnancy?

    If you need IVF but don’t qualify for NHS treatment or can’t get it where you live because your local primary care trust has stopped offering it, you may already be wondering about joining our egg-sharing programme.

    Egg-sharing gives you a way to get a subsidised cycle of IVF treatment with us for £850 inclusive of all drugs and necessary screening tests, in return for donating half of your eggs which we retrieve during your IVF cycle, which aren’t being used for your ow...

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  • 14th
    Mar
    2012

    NHS Trusts restrict IVF for smokers and the obese

    NHS Trusts across England are coming under fire once again for restricting access to IVF treatment – this time for those it deems obese or smokers.

    According to media reports, IVF is one of many procedures which are being refused to people who are overweight or smokers, in some areas potential parents have to be non-smokers for six months to be considered for treatment and within a certain BMI range for their weight.

    GP magazine Pulse reports that out of 91 NHS trusts in England, 25 have...

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  • 15th
    Sep
    2011

    Women freeze eggs dues to recession fears

    Women are so concerned about the recession that they’re prepared to freeze their eggs so they can postpone parenthood. In the Red magazine survey of more than 2,500 women aged 30-45, more than a quarter revealed that had considered egg freezing because of the current financial climate, while 15% said they had decided not to try for children at all.

    Women are also prepared to spend less on fertility treatment should they need it. Last year, in the same survey, the average amount respo...

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  • 15th
    Apr
    2011

    Has your NHS Trust cut IVF funding? Why not be an egg-sharer?

    With NHS Primary Care Trusts cutting funding for IVF across the UK, more infertile couples than ever are left with the only option of going private if they need fertility treatment.

    Some couples will now get no NHS-funded IVF cycles at all, whilst others will have to put all their hopes on only one ‘free’ IVF cycle instead of the three cycles which NICE recommends.

    If you’re affected, you may be wondering what options are open to you now. Private fertility treatment isn&rsquo...

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  • 30th
    Mar
    2011

    NHS IVF cut for couples in Yorkshire - egg sharing offers hope

    North Yorkshire and York has become the latest primary care trust to restrict funding for NHS IVF treatment.

    Couples in the region were hoping that the trust would plough funds into IVF treatment at the start of the new financial year in April. But health chiefs have dealt them a blow by maintaining the policy of restricting IVF, deciding not to routinely commission assisted conception services for 2011/12.

    Now couples will have to meet two ‘exceptions’ criteria to even be consider...

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  • 29th
    Apr
    2010

    Egg Sharing at Manchester Fertility Services

    North West infertility clinic, Manchester Fertility Services is offering couples reduced rate IVF through a new scheme which aims to help women who need donor eggs. The new egg-sharing programme is designed to help couples who need IVF but can’t afford private treatment. The programme gives them a subsidised rate for a cycle of IVF if they agree to donate some of their eggs collected during the IVF process, which are not being used for their own treatment, to other infertile women...

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