Appendix 5: News articles related to IVF

IVF decision made on: 05/09/2017

Articles

 25/01/2019 Cambs Times Woman backs health campaign to get IVF reinstated on the NHS  25/01/2019 Standard Woman backs health campaign to get IVF reinstated on the NHS  23/01/2019 The Hunts Post Lobby group calls for IVF funding cut to be reversed  17/01/2019 Telegraph Call to reverse IVF cuts  14/01/2019 Wisbech Standard ‘It would destroy me if we couldn’t have a baby’: Wisbech woman backs Healthwatch campaign to get IVF reinstated on the NHS  11/01/2019 Peterborough Telegraph Peterborough health group calls for city IVF cuts to be reversed  20/01/2019 Healthwatch Fertility service suspension to be reviewed  01/01/2019 Daily Mail Hope for childless couples as MPs vote to end 'disgraceful' IVF postcode lottery  21/11/2018 Fenland Citizen NEWLY-WEDS IN IVF CROWD FUNDING BID  30/10/2018 Bourne Hall NHS IVF funding in the  25/08/2018 Daily Mail Radical new approach to IVF 'DOUBLES the chance of getting pregnant to 62 per cent', say experts  26/07/2018 News Gay couple’s struggle to have a child  25/07/2018 Cambridge News IVF is 40 – but desperate couples in still can't get NHS funding for it  20/07/2018 BBC News online IVF: NHS couples 'face social rationing'  30/06/2018 Daily Mail Postcode lottery for couples as IVF is axed by NHS as bosses cut costs with recommended three cycles of treatment being offered by just one in 10 areas in UK  29/06/2018 Guardian, The IVF services slashed in England as NHS bosses cut costs  16/04/2018 Politics Home Steve McCabe: Infertility is a medical condition – it’s time we started treating it like one  11/03/2018 Peterborough Telegraph RAW DEAL: Peterborough one of the worst funded health services  08/03/2018 Peterborough Telegraph Cutting health services people rely on to save money  06/03/2018 Look East - BBC East Why the cost of healthcare in Cambridgeshire has left the county almost £50million in debt  23/02/2018 iNews IVF on the NHS: why more parts of the UK are cutting back on free fertility treatment  21/02/2018 Cambridge News Call for reverse to IVF funding cut  20/02/2018 Cambridge News How long will 'disgraceful' ban on free NHS IVF treatment last?  03/01/2018 Echo Basildon is bottom of the IVF league tables  02/01/2018 Daily Mail IVF 'postcode lottery': Thousands of private patients are being charged more than three times extra for blood tests, drugs and consultations  01/01/2018 The Times Huge disparity revealed in the cost of private IVF treatment  09/11/2017 Evening Telegraph Let's think before we judge on tax  02/11/2017 Royston Crow Couple speak up about fertility struggle and their life-changing IVF  30/10/2017 Independent, The IVF patients 'facing postcode lottery' after NHS budgets slashed  30/10/2017 BBC News online IVF: Patients face postcode lottery for treatment  30/10/2017 IVF.net Audit shows IVF postcode lottery in England has worsened  21/09/2017 Royston Crow Barrington couple’s IVF heartbreak prompts family to start petition against cuts by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough  09/2017 Change.org Bring back NHS funding for IVF in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (This petition had 6,283 supporters)  20/09/2017 Hunts Post () Health body confirms the suspension of treatment  11/09/2017 BioNews NHS IVF no longer available in county that pioneered it  11/09/2017 Wisbech Standard Fertility service suspension to be reviewed  08/09/2017 Cambridge News Doctor at world’s first IVF clinic slams Cambridgeshire funding cuts  08/09/2017 Royal College of Midwives Cambridgeshire and Peterborough stop IVF  08/09/2017 Pulse CCG defends 'necessary' decision to freeze access to free fertility services  07/09/2017 Express IVF: Free treatment is SCRAPPED in county where it all began  07/09/2017 EDP 24 Postcode lottery of fertility treatment in our region is laid bare as free IVF scrapped in county where it all began  07/09/2017 Cambridge News IVF funding cut – ‘A lot of babies now won’t ever exist’  07/09/2017 Peterborough Telegraph IVF cut could be 'devastating'  06/09/2017 Cambridge 105 Cambridgeshire IVF Suspension  06/09/2017 Fertility Network Cambridgeshire and Peterborough suspends NHS IVF for at least 18 months  06/09/2017 Daily Mail County that pioneered IVF 40 years ago becomes the latest to scrap the fertility treatment for free on the NHS  06/09/2017 The Hunts Post Health body confirms suspension of IVF treatment in Cambridgeshire, despite opposition  06/09/2017 Practice Business Cut to IVF could be ‘devastating’ says Wansford GP  06/09/2017 Royston Crow IVF referrals in Royston and South Cambs suspended following decision by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG  06/09/2017 Heart Radio Specialist IVF Services To Be Suspended In Cambridgeshire & Peterborough  06/09/2017 Hunts Post (St Neots) Health body hits out at proposed cuts to service A health watchdog has criticised plans  06/09/2017 Cambridge News Free IVF treatment on NHS is scrapped  06/09/2017 Fenland Citizen Fears over fertility service cuts  06/09/2017 BBC News Free IVF no longer offered in county where it all began  05/09/2017 Cambridge Independent NHS-funded IVF in Cambridgeshire is cut  05/09/2017 ITV news Couples told they won't get IVF treatment in Cambridgeshire

Enquiries

 24/01/2019 Anglia Tonight IVF review - ITV Anglia  15/01/2019 Cambridge Independent Question on IVF review  14/01/2019 Hunts Post IVF funding  11/01/2019 BBC IVF review  29/11/2018 BBC Radio Cambridgeshire IVF - couple crowdfunding for treatment  29/10/2018 Victoria Derbyshire Programme (BBC2) IVF enquiry for the Victoria Derbyshire show  24/07/2018 BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Request for interview - IVF  17/07/2018 BBC Radio Cambridgeshire CCG - IVF  28/06/2018 theguardian.com IVF overview  28/03/2018 Mail Online IVF  27/10/2017 ITV news IVF provision - rules not fair  27/10/2017 BBC Radio 4 Discussion on IVF  29/09/2017 ITV Anglia Statement on IVF  11/09/2017 Cambridge Independent Information on £46.5m savings figure in IVF press release  11/09/2017 Cambridge Independent Follow-up interview on IVF  07/09/2017 Masons News Service, Cambridge Information on IVF decision  07/09/2017 BBC 5 Live Interview request re IVF decision with Dr Gary Howsam  06/09/2017 Mail Online IVF press release request  06/09/2017 ITV Anglia Interview request re IVF decision with Dr Gary Howsam  05/09/2017 BBC Radio Cambridgeshire IVF interview request  04/09/2017 BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Interview or statement re IVF for breakfast show  04/09/2017 Look East - BBC East IVF - costs and request for interview  04/09/2017 ITV Anglia IVF consultation decision GB - 5 September 2017