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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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