Petition for IVF fairness - please sign

[Catlover2014]

Unfortunately many clinical commissioning groups still don't fund the nationally recommended 3 IVF cycles for couples facing infertility. Fertility Fairness UK is raising awareness of this postcode lottery.

If, like me, you feel every tax payer in the UK should have equal access to fertility treatment regardless of their address then please take a moment to sign this e-petition:

epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/70037

Thank you!

[18yearsoftrying]

All done! Thanks for posting, I have forwarded on the link.

My distant relative: 3 free attempts despite not working & claiming JSA for years.
Me: Total spend £52,500. No free attempts at all despite working 72hrs a week on minimum wage for 19 years.

This petition is long overdue.

[UncommonSense]

Absolutely everyone should have equal funding to IVF. Absolutely none.

The NHS is creaking at the seams and should not be spending what little resources it has on IVF.

like it or not, having kids is not (and should not be) a right.

[minibmw2010]

UncommonSense, what the hell prompted you to come on an Infertility thread ?!?!? Stop being such a bore and go away please.

[Miltonmaid]

Done.

[adora1985]

UncommonSense, the NHS shouldn't be squandering 500 million a year on drugs that go to waste, it shouldn't be wasting huge sums of money on renting buildings from privately owned companies when it has perfectly adequately NHS owned buildings already in use, it shouldn't be privatising vast swathes of the system at huge cost. That is what is wrong with the NHS, and why the system is haemorrhaging money, not from treating a recognised illness that is already under massive funding cuts as it is.

[Metalhead]

"having kids is not a right"

And not suffering from an illness like cancer is? Have I missed something? Your argument doesn't make sense...

[tak1ngchances]

FUCK OFF uncommonsense

The nhs is spending billions on people who smoke, drink and eat themselves sick.

You do know that infertility is classed as a disability yes??

[Lauraqc]

Signed, with pleasure (and disappointment that we have to even raise this postcode lottery yet again).

[K9mummy]

Message to uncommon sense.. If you took the time to look at NICE guidelines Re infertility, they state that the NHS is in place to save lives, and improve quality of life, and they quote "there is no greater example of this than infertility" sick of dealing with these small minded views in general, let alone on an infertility site!

[Artistic]

Perhaps the NHS should offer low cost subsidised IVF - so that everyone can have a fair chance and no one gets free attempts that they can have at the cost of another couple musing out.?

[maggiethemagpie]

I don't have infertility but would happily see some of my taxes be spent on offering ivf to infertile couples. I think the nhs could even offer an option eg one fully funded cycle or use the money to part fund 2-3 cycles with the patient funding the rest themselves. If we start saying infertile people don't have a right to be treated, what about other conditions? Exzema? Won't kill you, so live with it. Cancer in old people? It may kill you but you would have died soon anyway so you don't have the right to be treated.
I think if NICE have decreed 3 cycles per patient as optimal this should be offered everywhere in the UK. otherwise what is the point of NICE setting these rules?

[Tootsiepops]

I don't think the infertility board it the right place to debate ivf funding. There are a lot of women here (including me) who are in the middle of ivf or other fertility treatments and I feel like opening this conversation up on this board is encroaching on what should be a safe space for people. Whilst I am in favour of open and honest debate, in this case, I would respectfully ask that you think very carefully about how much hurt you might cause before you post.

[claremccrory59]

Maggiethemagpie - in Northern Ireland we get 1 funded cycle and 1 frozen embryo transfer on the nhs. Not ideal, but better than nothing, and a third of the cost for other places in the uk.
Are there areas in the uk where ivf isn't funded at all? I thought you all got 3 rounds!

[mrschatty]

Signed. For the last 6m (now in m18 ttc) I've been looking into ivf as a way to prepare myself for all eventualities and I'm disgusted about this postcode lottery. Time for change is now. 3 attempts for all as per nice guidelines x

[claremccrory59]

So who gets what where? 1 go in Northern Ireland - what do people get elsewhere?