IVF: Research

(asked on 12th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Page 78 of the Women’s Health Strategy published in August 2022, what steps his Department has taken to encourage research into the evidence on IVF add-on treatments.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 21st December 2022

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that it has an agreement with 10 professional and patient bodies on the principles of responsible innovation, which states that the fertility sector should continue to improve the standards of treatment by compiling evidence for treatment add-ons. This is intended to inform consensus on how add-ons should be offered to patients. The HFEA’s Scientific and Clinical Advances Advisory Committee continues to monitor the evidence base for treatment add-ons and makes recommendations to the HFEA.

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