NHS IVF after Private

[pandapopk]

Does anyone know if they will give you a round of NHS IVF after you have done an egg retrieval and freeze privately? I’m 33 and think we will need 3 cycles but don’t want to delay the first waiting for the NHS referral!
ah just getting my head around all of this!

@pandapopk it depends on your CCG, each has different rules. Check the rules of yours and it should say what's allowed.

Ditto above. Check locally - what you're entitled to varies hugely between CCGs/ICBs and they all have different rules re private treatment. In our area having any treatment privately makes you ineligible for NHS care. You can choose not to tell the NHS about your private treatment if you don't want to.

If you go private first and keep it quiet from the NHS can they find out? Be interested to know because if not I'd keep quiet and say you haven't gone private.

@donnie12 i think we are allowed to have a private round aswell as an NHS round but i am scared to mention it (just in case!)

Does anyone know if the NHS need to know about previous rounds of IVF and/or if they can find out?

Really dont want to lie but also scared to say anything!

@pandapopk

Yeah Id be interested to know if the NHS can find out if you have had IVF privately. If it's 'private' don't see how they would unless you tell them....don't tell them. You owe them nothing as presuming you have paid £10's of thousands in taxes over the years not to mention the mess the NHS is in, I'd say nothing

To clarify, I haven't done this, but having been through the process of private IVF I can't see how your NHS service would know unless you told them. They can't share your data without your permission. There is an argument that knowing about success of previous cycles including drug regimes etc would be advantageous for future cycles so you could end up on the back foot if you don't declare private treatment. I would always go with honesty if possible, but if you know it would invalidate your NHS option I can see why people might not disclose private treatment.

If the CCG says it’s fine then they really are unlikely to care, it’s in writing so you can hold them to that. I agree though that the key thing is to be honest if possible because you need to think of each round as a learning curve. If your clinic doesn’t realise you already have had a round they’ll treat you the same as the first clinic did, irrelevant of outcomes from that cycle, so it’s important to bear that in kind to get the best from your treatments.

I had an Nhs cycle after going private. However, i could not start the NHS cycle if they were any frozen embryos. I had to have the frozen embryo transferred, once it was unsuccessful I had the NHS cycle. I had my private and Nhs cycle at the same clinic which helped.