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?

It has nothing to do with the gp its whether the referral is accepted.

It’s only about a 16% success rate for ivf for someone 40 or over. NHS shouldn’t be wasting their money on something with such a low success rate when they can’t afford life saving meds and surgery for others.

Absolutely agree. OP had a whine about what she found nasty and unhelpful comments, yet......

You do know that women who have babies 40+ are mostly ok and, before widespread contraception, women used to regularly have babies in their 40's who weren't disabled.

I completely agree.

Its classed as a high-rise pregnany so more appointments, higher chance of c section and higher chance of disability for baby this all costs money

I didnt have anything different in my 40's than I had in my 30's and nobody mentioned 'high risk'.

You had an advanced maternal age pregnancy previously known as geriatric pregnancy and you was never told the higher risks or offered extra appointments. How odd

In fact, when I had my first one there was a statutory GP appt but they'd scrapped that by the time I had my second so only had the standard midwife appts.

So that must have been what over 30 years ago? Because when I had dc over 25 years ago there was no GP appt. Maybe 30 plus years ago the risks of geriatric pregnancies weren’t realised and extra appts, scans, etc weren’t offered?

14 years was my last dc when they said we only see GP if recommended. Had another dc 20 years ago and had to see GP then as standard.

Wow, that certainly wasn’t standard nationwide. GPs though did used to be able to claim £200 from the ICB if they saw a pregnant woman for a pleasant chat at the start of her pregnancy. So I assume some used to do this to make sure they got the money. I believe this payment has stopped and the GPs immediately stopped doing it!

That’s a false equivalence. I’m not arguing that the increased medical risks associated with later pregnancy don’t exist, of course they do. I’m saying you can’t look at that in isolation and pretend the solution is simply “women should have babies in their 20s”.

If society expects people to have children in their 20s, then people need to be able to afford housing, childcare and basic living costs, and they need decent maternity/paternity provision while they’re doing it. Telling people to have children earlier without addressing those things doesn’t magically make the costs disappear.
And “older pregnancy carries increased risks” isn’t the same as “women who have children later are irresponsibly increasing the NHS bill”. Most pregnancies are healthy, and the NHS already manages the additional risks through screening, monitoring and appropriate maternity care.

The UK Government's current evidence says children growing up in poverty are more likely to experience mental and physical health issues, poor educational outcomes, unemployment, lower earnings and homelessness. Encouraging those without the financial means to have children is hugely irresponsible.