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Fertility Network UK Magazine – Autumn 2016 INUK Autumn 2016.e$S_Layout 1 11/10/2016 10:21 Page 1 No.51 Autumn 2016 The national charity, here for anyone who has ever experienced fertility problems NHS Funding Fundin g for NHS fertility treatmen the country, with access entir your postcode. t var ely dependies across ent on Information aby, you can find If you are trying to have a b rmation about fertility problems, treatment info upport here. options, funding and emotional s News News art parents icles f or those trying to become Support Our support network is here to offer those affected by fertility issues the support and understanding they need, when they need it. Events We have details of events which are free to attend and we will also list details of open days and free patient events for clinics who are members of our clinic outreach scheme. Our new website will be launched at The Fertility Show in November: www.fertilitynetworkuk.org INUK Autumn 2016.e$S_Layout 1 11/10/2016 10:23 Page 2 Fertility Network UK Susan Seenan Staff Gallery Chief Executive [email protected] Tel: 01294 230730 Mobile: 07762 137786 Sheena Andrew Coutts Catherine Hill Gillian Young Business Media McLaughlin Head of Development Relations Volunteer Business Manager Officer Co-ordinator Development [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Mobile: 07710 764162 Mobile: 07794 372351 Mobile: 07469 660845 Mobile: 07909 686874 Head Office Claire Heritage Alison Hannah Head Office Onash Tramaseur Manager Administrator England Co-ordinator [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Tel: 01424 732402 Tel: 01424 732361 Tel: 01424 732405 Kate Brian Anya Sizer Nic Snow Diane London Regional Technical Arnold Rep res– Organiser Support Support Line ent ative London [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Mobile: 07798 884075 Wales Northern Ireland Alice Sharon Hilary Fiona Matthews Davidson Knight O’Donnell Wales Northern Ireland Support Co- Support Co- Co-ordinator Co-ordinator ordinator NI ordinator NI [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Mobile: 07563 734808 Tel: 02890 825677 Mobile: 07596 290335 Mobile: 07976 503428 Mobile: 07837 987562 Scotland Gwenda Burns Norma Whiteford Mairi Handy Scotland Branch Development Officer Development Officer Co-ordinator South West Scotland North East Scotland gwenda@ norma@ mairi@ fertilitynetworkscotland. fertilitynetworkscotland. fertilitynetworkscotland. org org org Tel: 01294 279162 Mobile: 07592 793308 Mobile: 07759 798387 Mobile: 07825 827865 2 Fertility Network UK Autumn 2016 INUK Autumn 2016.e$S_Layout 1 11/10/2016 10:23 Page 3 Affected by fertility issues? We, the national charity, offer free advice, support, information and understanding We can help, you are not alone Fertility Network UK is the nation’s leading patient-focused For free advice, support, help, understanding and information fertility charity on NHS funding: We are here to provide free and impartial help, support, advice and understanding for anyone affected by fertility issues: Q for anyone considering their future fertility email: [email protected] Q for those trying to become parents visit: www.fertilitynetworkuk.org Q for anyone facing the challenges of childlessness For free emotional support, and help with Q for people successful after fertility issues understanding medical issues Q surrounding fertility treatment: for anyone needing help to access NHS-funded fertility treatment We understand the widespread impact of fertility issues. Individuals can be affected physically, emotionally, socially and financially; Need peer support? family, friends, relationships and work can all Q to speak to someone with experience suffer. Feelings of depression, sadness, of fertility issues; frustration, anger, helplessness and Q to meet locally with others in a similar situation; isolation are common. Q or to join the online HealthUnlocked That is why we are here on a practical and fertility community emotional level to support and advise you — visit: www.fertilitynetworkuk.org whatever your experience of fertility issues. Fertility Network UK welcomes new Corporate Partners See page 22/23 for further information 3 Fertility Network UK Autumn 2016 INUK Autumn 2016.e$S_Layout 1 11/10/2016 10:23 Page 4 Fertility Law What is it? making agencies can do so). These are regulations which may not apply in other countries, and in an increasingly globalised world many fertility patients are crossing borders for treatment. If you are considering going overseas, it is important to understand the differences in law and regulation and how this will affect both you and your child in the future. Fertility law also determines one of the most Natalie Gamble is This is a question I am often asked, usually with a fair fundamental legal questions for anyone building a founder of the dose of interest and curiosity. However, it always family: will we be our child’s legal parents? For those UK’s first fascinates me that – whether with a taxi driver, another conceiving through IVF with their own eggs and sperm specialist fertility lawyer or someone at a wedding - the conversation the answer is usually straightforward, but for those law firm almost never ends without a story about a friend or conceiving with donated eggs or sperm or with the help Natalie Gamble relative who has been affected by some kind of fertility of a surrogate, the legal position may not be so obvious. Associates law issue. It probably isn’t surprising when you see the UK law sets clear rules to protect families conceived statistics, with one in six couples experiencing through egg or sperm donation. In egg donation cases, difficulties conceiving and growing numbers of same it says that the woman who gives birth is the only legal sex, solo and older parents. mother (which means that under UK law an egg donor With the Fertility Show in mind, I am conscious that never has any legal status or responsibilities as a some of you are at the start of fertility journeys and are parent). There is also legal protection for couples seeking information to work out your options. I wonder conceiving through sperm donation, whether they are how many of you have thought about how much the law opposite-sex or same-sex couples. If the mother is will affect you, your treatment and the family you are married, her husband, wife or civil partner will be the building. child’s other legal parent, provided he or she consented After the first IVF baby was born in 1978, the UK put to the conception. If the couple is not married, the non- in place a legal framework for fertility treatment which biological parent can be nominated as the father or has for the past twenty years regulated how fertility second parent if treatment takes place at a clinic in the treatment works in the UK. Fertility clinics can only treat UK (there is a process of paperwork which must be patients (or deal with human embryos or eggs or sperm) dealt with before conception, with some care needed with a licence from the Human Fertilisation and over the detail to make sure it is done right). Embryology Authority, and lots of conditions come The parenthood rules are vital in protecting donor attached to that licence. Even if you don’t realise it, the conceived families, but one size definitely does not fit legal framework will be there underpinning almost every all. The same rules mean that parents conceiving aspect of your treatment. through surrogacy end up with the wrong people Quality and safety is paramount, with clinics regularly treated as the parents at birth – the surrogate and, if she inspected and required to report mistakes in treatment is married, her husband or wife (even where both and near misses, but parameters are also set as to what intended parents are the biological parents). The law clinics can and cannot do on ethical and social therefore also creates a process for intended parents to grounds. By way of example, parents are not allowed apply to the family court after the birth for a parental to select the sex of their child in the UK (unless there is order, which triggers their child’s birth certificate being a significant risk of a gender-specific medical disorder). re-issued naming them as the parents. If you are Limits are set as to how long embryos and gametes can considering surrogacy, it is important to realise that be stored for, the circumstances in which they can be these rules apply even if you conceive overseas and used during someone’s lifetime and after their death, your child is born in a country which recognises you as and what happens if a couple separates with embryos the legal parents from birth. in storage. So if you are having or considering fertility treatment, The law also sets parameters for how donation and fertility law will affect how your treatment is managed, surrogacy works in the UK, for example requiring the treatment options available to you in the UK and donors in the UK to be unpaid and to be identifiable abroad, and your legal status as the parents of any child once any child conceived reaches the age of 18. It is you conceive. Fertility law is not something you can also illegal for fertility clinics or professional agencies to escape coming into contact with, even if you do not broker surrogacy arrangements (although non-profit mean to. 4 Fertility Network UK Autumn 2016 INUK Autumn 2016.e$S_Layout 1 11/10/2016 10:24 Page 5 Our new Websiteis here! Launched to mark the 2016 annual Fertility Show, with the country. Our news page keeps you up-to-date with a brand new look and fresh up to date content, we are the latest fertility news and research.
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