PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Fertility: Medical Treatments (31 October 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has had discussions with Fertility Fairness on clinical commissioning groups' adherence to NICE guidelines on the provision of NHS funded infertility services.

Asked by:
Helen Hayes (Labour)

The then Minister for Public Health met Fertility Fairness and other stakeholders on 14 December 2015 to discuss the National Health Service provision of fertility services and, in particular, issues around the pricing of NHS in vitro fertilisation. Fertility Fairness has subsequently provided information and intelligence to the Department about current trends. A representative from Fertility Fairness is also closely involved in the work to develop a benchmark price for infertility treatments.

Answered by:
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Conservative)
7 November 2016