Department of Health written question – answered at on 4 May 2016.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of clinical commissioning groups in England are working together on implementation of NICE guidelines on fertility treatment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to instruct NHS England to commission fertility treatment centrally.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of clinical commissioning groups are fully implementing NICE guidelines on fertility treatment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of children in the UK who were conceived using IVF relative to (a) Belgium, (b) the Nordic Countries and (c) other EU countries.
Information about clinical commissioning groups’ approach to commissioning fertility services is not collected centrally.
The Department has not made any estimate of the proportion of children conceived in the United Kingdom using in-vitro fertilisation relative to those countries mentioned.
The Department has no plans to instruct NHS England to commission fertility treatment centrally. Fertility services do not meet the criteria set out in the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to be nationally commissioned by NHS England.
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