Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered am ar 7 Rhagfyr 2018.
Jim Shannon
Shadow DUP Spokesperson (Human Rights), Shadow DUP Spokesperson (Health)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that fertility treatment is available to older women.
Jackie Doyle-Price
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
It is the Government's policy that clinical commissioning groups should have regard to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guideline on the assessment and treatment of people with fertility problems when commissioning services for which they are responsible. This includes the recommendation in the guideline that three cycles of in-vitro fertilisation be offered to qualifying couples where the woman is under the age of 40 and one cycle where the woman is between the ages of 40 and 42.
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