PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
IVF (12 March 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that all clinical commissioning groups offer three full cycles of IVF to women under the age of 40 who have been trying to get pregnant for 2 years.

Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)

The level of provision of infertility treatment is decided by local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and will take into account the needs of the population overall. NHS England has advised that it recognises that there is a great deal of interest in the quality and availability of in vitro fertilisation services, and is developing a benchmark price that the National Health Service pays for fertility treatments, which will become available for use in 2018/19.

NHS England is also working with CCGs and various stakeholders including the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, to understand how best to help them commission fertility services.

Answered by:
Dame Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative)
15 March 2018