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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Helen Coffey

Everyone is panicking about the national birth rate crisis, but access to IVF is being quietly decimated

I think we should stop calling it a ‘postcode lottery’. A lottery implies that you’ve got some luck in this – but you’ve only got luck if you happen to live in that particular place. You don’t get any more luck once you’re there. You’re stuck.”

Sarah Norcross, director of the Progress Educational Trust (PET), a charity that improves choices for people affected by infertility, is talking about the current access to fertility treatment. More specifically, access to in vitro fertilisation (IVF) on the NHS in England.

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