Free nhs ivf as a single woman

[Kwills198619]

I wondered if anyone can shed some light….I’ve done 4 self-funded IUIs and am about to have my 5th. I’ve just turned 40, have no known fertility issues and good AMH, and I don’t generally need stimulation medication.
For anyone who was referred for free NHS IVF as a solo woman after completing the required number of self-funded IUIs (6), what evidence did they ask you to provide?
My clinic app currently shows 6 IUI cycles because it includes a cycle that was cancelled due to hyperstimulation. Did the NHS accept your treatment history/screenshots from the clinic app, or did they contact your fertility clinic and ask for full records/confirmation of each completed cycle?
or do they not ask for anything?
What actually happened during your referral and what documentation were you asked for?

You might be able to live on one salary in the cheaper parts of the UK. I've only ever lived in the expensive bit so wouldn't know.
One of the reasons for the the increase in disability is because of medical advancements in premature babies and others born with , previously, life limiting conditions

According to this thread and Google some do. I was a bit surprised.

‘Illegal’ immigrants can’t access NHS care. Refugees and legal migrants can.

Please look in to the ethics of this and in particular your potential child’s lack of contact with his or her father which will be a lifelong loss.

And for you, this thread is an heartbreaking example of how things can turn out.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/parenting/5524475-going-through-hell-in-early-single-motherhood?latest=1

I bet the vast majority of people saying the OP’s IVF shouldn’t be funded by the NHS are speaking from the very privileged position of not being infertile.

Also, if the OP is working and paying tax and NIC, then why shouldn’t she be entitled to medical treatment?

I really dislike the judgement on here.

This is yet another thread on MN were the OP has asked a question and it gets completely derailed. She probably didn’t want a lecture on the morality or ethics of IVF when you’re a single parent.

It must be hard to be single and wanting a child and reaching the end of your window of fertility as a woman. I do wish people would reserve judgement, and if they do want to debate the ethics or morality of it, start another thread.

I agree with you 100%.

It's not medical treatment for an illness.

Everyone in the Uk can access NHS care especially on an emergency basis.

PND can happen at any age

Most people I know who have undergone gender transition had to DIY it or do it privately because waiting lists are so long. It's not the case that they're cutting IVF funding just to cheerfully hand out T to people, you know?

Do they definitely offer it in your area at 40, though? Where my friend lived to get it on the NHS you had to be under 30. Where another lived they were ineligible as a same-sex couple. In my area it wasn't offered to anyone at all.

It's medical treatment for a condition. The NHS treats lots of conditions that aren't life threatening or illnesses. My nephew had his wonky eye treated to improve his appearance.

I need glasses but I don’t get them paid for by the NHS, the NHS don’t even pay for eye tests……..I need them to see and to be able to work and read and live. If the NHS can’t fund something like that, why would they fund IVF for someone who wants something, it’s not a need.

Because it's a biologically driven needed that a lot of people don"t have control over.

But it’s not essential - you can get through life without it.

Things like glasses are completely essential and immediately correct the problem

If the NHS won’t pay for something essential why would they pay for something not wholly essential and that has a low success rate anyway

Honestly, what crap.
Housing (think we’ll all agree - quite important) energy costs, food, council tax etc often require two earners, particularly if you’re in your 20’s. You then battle exorbitant childcare cost, coupled with dire maternity/paternity pay.
Considered parents should think about these costs - otherwise the ever increasing benefits bill and the number of children being raised in poverty with continue on the current (unfavourable) trajectory.

Immigrants are not getting ivf!

they’re getting essential healthcare to prevent them dying at the side of the road. Basically, in financial terms, it’s cheaper to treat them than to not and have the illnesses spread around the community.

These people are only “illegal” because there is NO LEGAL ROUTE to enter the uk to claim asylum. Furthermore, my children have never paid into the system and yet receive treatment from it.

Really think about what’s in the best interests of the child because at the moment it seems to be about what YOU want and not about whether it’s going to be ok for your child to be raised not knowing who their father is and without them in their lives. Parenting is fucking hard, single parenting doesn’t appear to be twice as hard, it seems to be 10 x as hard.

Ive yet to meet a child or adolescent with an absent father that didn’t miss them.

The OP has said she has no fertility issues.

So the increasing benefit bill isn't ok but the increasing nhs bill when women choose to put themselves and children at higher risk by getting pregnant at a later age is ok

Global population increases are not being driven by IVF pregnancies or surrogacy. You sound silly.

For those saying “the OP clearly stated she doesn’t have fertility issues” - she does, if repeated IUI attempts have failed. It’s called unexplained infertility.

Also, the NHS treats more than “illness” in many other circumstances.

if you are speaking from a position of infertility and declined free NHS IVF because you find it unethical, or you have chosen not to have children due to ethical/sustainability reasons, I’ll listen to you. Any other “opinion” is from a place of privilege where you can’t possibly understand and empathise.

@Preppercorn

who cares what you think?! IVF IS available on the NHS - suck it up 😀

I have no experience of this, but with the NHS any treatment which is not an emergency starts with your GP referring you,and how easy it will be to access will be in part connected to how sympathetic your GP is.

you lost me with the immigrant rant