For many, including one mother-to-be, watching their chances of having a baby be slashed by a third would be ‘absolutely gutting’. But this week, Greater Manchester health bosses have said they are ...

A Huddersfield woman says a postcode-based IVF policy has left her feeling “robbed” of the chance to start a family. Stephanie Parkinson, 32, from Huddersfield, has "hit out" at local NHS policies in ...

This January, LGBTQIA+ charity Stonewall is drawing attention to the reality of unequal IVF access for queer people across England. Specifically, the organisation is launching a new campaign ...

The world’s first IVF baby has called for an end to the “postcode lottery” of NHS fertility care. Louise Brown, who was born in 1978, said that it must be “devastating” for people to be told they ...

Jarrow MP Kate Osborne has told the government that it is time to end the “IVF postcode lottery, endless delays and people being priced out of having a family”. On September 9 Ms Osborne, chair of the ...

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New research shows the idea of the ‘postcode lottery’ was first used in 1997 to express concern about how access to NHS drugs and treatment varied from place to place. But its meaning has since ...

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