Fertility: Medical Treatments

(asked on 1st September 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on reducing barriers to access of fertility treatment.


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 11th September 2023

In the first year of the Women’s Health Strategy, we have achieved a significant amount, including better health information for women and girls, investing in the expansion of women’s health hubs, improving access to hormone replacement therapy, and increasing support for bereaved parents who experience a loss before 24 weeks.

We have published a tool to summarise fertility commissioning policies for integrated care boards in England, to provide patients with more information and introduce greater transparency about local provision. We are continuing to work with NHS England on commitments to improve access for female same-sex couples and to end the use of non-clinical eligibility criteria in access to in-vitro fertilisation.

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