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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Sarah Marsh Consumer affairs correspondent

Fertility patients in UK unable to keep stored embryos amid cost of living crisis

Portrait of Laura Jones and her husband Jack Jones, who are undergoing IVF amidst the cost of living crisis, pictured in the foyer of their apartment building. Bournemouth, Dorset.
Laura Jones, 29, and her husband Jack Jones, 30, have had two rounds of IVF and say that the process has been financially and emotionally difficult. Photograph: Peter Flude/The Guardian

Fertility patients are being forced to destroy embryos because they cannot afford to transfer or store them during the cost of living crisis, experts have said.

Dr Catherine Hill, Fertility Network UK’s head of policy and public affairs, spoke of a “dire situation for fertility patients” who struggled to get help on the NHS and were then forced to turn to the expensive private sector. She said rising inflation had made it much harder for couples “racking up mountains of debt”.

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