NHS funded IVF for a couple(IHS payee and British Citizen)

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Due to our inability to conceive (ongoing issue with husband for which is yet to receive any treatment from NHS from past one year), my GP referred me for an initial consultant (July) to a Gynaecologist Department. We were recommended IVF treatment. Subsequently we were referred to the IVF clinic of choice and the IVF clinic scheduled our first appointment this week. In meantime, I received a letter from hospital of Gynaecologist Department cancelling of all fertility appointments/treatment and also charging me for initial consultant in July because I am an IHS payee. No indication was given that an initial consultant would be chargeable. The IVF clinic also cancelled my upcoming appointment as no one around had any clarity in my situation where one spouse is a British Citizen and another is an IHS payee.
Guidance on implementing the overseas visitor charging regulations January 2019 states:
5.23 Where two people are seeking assisted conception services with NHS funding, and one of the two people is covered by health surcharge arrangements and the other is ordinarily resident in the UK and therefore not subject to charge, the services required by the health surcharge payer will be chargeable. Any services required by the ordinarily resident person will continue to be freely available, subject to the established local or national commissioning arrangement.

We will be receiving treatment as couple. The guidance clearly states that as IHS payee, I am eligible for the fertility treatment for a cost and my spouse can receive for free.
Has anyone been in similar situation? Does anyone know about the charges applicable in my scenario? Would both of us be treated as private patient or would be entitle to some funding? Would it matter that the IVF treatment is due to lack treatment given to my husband who is a British citizen?
This has emotionally taken a toll on me. Just feels that I have been treated unfairly without being given an option and being denied a chance to be parent. (Please don't be judgemental , I am not asking for a free treatment just what is fair)

It's a difficult one as the whole IVF entitlement thing in this country is so random and unfair anyway. I wasn't entitled to treatment in my area (both of us UK citizens), yet a friend in the next borough got the works.

In your position I would get your DH to press harder for his treatment if that would solve the conception issues.

Good luck though

What’s IHS? With regards to your point that ‘no indication was given that first consult was payable’; if you’re not entitled to NHS care I think they’re allowed to charge for it retrospectively, as the onus is on you to be eligible and they can recoup costs. You mention your husband isn’t treated for his problem, and then later you state that your consultant has recommended for IVF. That usually suggests that your husband’s problem can’t be fixed hence the IVF?What treatment is he waiting for? The rules over IVF funding are awful, even if you’re both resident with full NHS entitlement, so I fear that if you’re not entitled then the major costs will be charged.