In Vitro Fertilisation

(asked on 6th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce regional variation in the commissioning of IVF services in the NHS.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 15th November 2017

NHS England and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, together with professional and stakeholder groups, are working together to see how commissioning of fertility services could be improved. This includes ongoing work to develop a benchmark price to inform what the National Health Service would pay for in-vitro fertilisation treatments. Commissioning guidance, which aims to improve the quality of commissioning and further encourage the implementation of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence fertility guideline, is also being developed and will be disseminated by NHS England to all clinical commissioning groups in England.

The intention is that both of these products this will be ready for use by the NHS in 2018/19 financial year.

The Department strongly supports this programme of work.

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