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  • WHAT’S HAPPENING?
    • ICBs aim for £8bn savings, risking NHS staff and delays
    • Enough funding for the NHS?
    • Now Labour is in, press for action to rescue the NHS
    • Battles rage over physician associates
    • Criticism of the long-term workforce plan begins to emerge
    • Key points of the 2023 long-term workforce plan
    • The damaging effects of underfunding
    • Virtual Wards
    • Patient safety: Warnings from all sides
    • Integrated Care Organisations
    • The views of NHS staff
  • WHY?
    • Why are local NHS leaders running out of funds?
    • Staff Shortages
    • International comparison
  • WHAT’S THE CURE?
    • Ten reasons why the NHS needs longterm rises in funding
    • In defence of the NHS
    • Would European style social health insurance be the answer to the problems of the NHS?
    • What’s so good about the NHS?
    • Can the NHS survive in the long-term?
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    • Find a local campaign group
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    • Donate
  • ARTICLES
    • The Lowdown – home to campaigning articles on the NHS
    • Restoring the People’s NHS
    • BMJ Commission’s call to action to relaunch the NHS
    • Emergency care summit report
    • Recent reports
    • Delays to treatment
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Funding for IVF reinstated in north east Essex five years after it was cut

Five years after it was cut, funding for IVF has now been reinstated in north east Essex. In 2015, the … Read more

Categories Funding Tags ivf, north-east Essex

NHS-funded IVF decision to be made in Cambridgeshire today

The decision will decide whether routine IVF treatment will be available on the NHS in Cambridgeshire – this treatment is … Read more

Categories Cuts to services, Underfunded Tags CCGs, ivf, underfunding

Postcode lottery forcing patients to register with out-of-area practices to ‘get around it’

Minister Jackie Doyle reported that patients are registering at out-of-area surgeries in order to access IVF services. There has been … Read more

Categories Rationing, CCGs, Cuts to services Tags CCGs, ivf, parliament, practices, rationing

Funding body for Cambridge IVFs told by health department cutting NHS IVF treatment is “not acceptable”

People have been campaigning against the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) following plans to cut NHS-funded IVF treatment. … Read more

Categories Cuts to services, CCGs Tags CCGs, cuts to services, Department of Health, fairness, ivf, NICE guidelines

NHS IVF treatment to be cut permanently in Peterborough and Cambridgeshire

In 2017 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group ended funding for IVF treatment for all patients with the exception of … Read more

Categories Cuts to services, NHS spending, Rationing Tags CCGs, cuts to services, ivf, rationing, Recent news

IVF clinics ‘should pay NHS if their treatments cause complications’

A leading British fertility expert is calling for IVF clinics to foot the bill when assisted reproductive treatments result in … Read more

Categories NHS spending Tags ivf, NHS England, Privatisation, safety

NHS IVF no longer available in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, despite pioneering it

Full story in BioNews, 11 September 2017 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)  has removed funding for free IVF treatment, despite being the county … Read more

Categories Rationing, NHS spending, STPs Tags cuts to services, ivf, STP 21, underfunding

IVF cut back in 13 areas of England to save money, new data shows

Thirteen areas of England have restricted or completely halted IVF treatment since the start of the year for women struggling to conceive, … Read more

Categories Rationing, NHS spending Tags cuts to services, deficit, ivf, postcode lottery, STP 19, STP 25, STP 29, STP 31, STP 40, STP 8, underfunding

NHS cutbacks worsen IVF ‘postcode lottery’ in England

Funding cuts by the UK’s NHS has meant that 13 areas in England have restricted or halted IVF treatment since the start of 2017, … Read more

Categories Rationing, NHS spending, STPs Tags cuts to services, deficit, ivf, STP 31, STP 39, underfunding

Bristol hospital IVF unit to close

From November 2017, patients will no longer be able to receive IVF at the Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine (BCRM), … Read more

Categories Rationing, STPs Tags cuts to services, deficit, ivf, STP 39, underfunding
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  • HOME
  • WHAT’S HAPPENING?
    • ICBs aim for £8bn savings, risking NHS staff and delays
    • Enough funding for the NHS?
    • Now Labour is in, press for action to rescue the NHS
    • Battles rage over physician associates
    • Criticism of the long-term workforce plan begins to emerge
    • Key points of the 2023 long-term workforce plan
    • The damaging effects of underfunding
    • Virtual Wards
    • Patient safety: Warnings from all sides
    • Integrated Care Organisations
    • The views of NHS staff
  • WHY?
    • Why are local NHS leaders running out of funds?
    • Staff Shortages
    • International comparison
  • WHAT’S THE CURE?
    • Ten reasons why the NHS needs longterm rises in funding
    • In defence of the NHS
    • Would European style social health insurance be the answer to the problems of the NHS?
    • What’s so good about the NHS?
    • Can the NHS survive in the long-term?
  • WHAT CAN I DO?
    • Find a local campaign group
    • Tell us your experiences of underfunding
    • Donate
  • ARTICLES
    • The Lowdown – home to campaigning articles on the NHS
    • Restoring the People’s NHS
    • BMJ Commission’s call to action to relaunch the NHS
    • Emergency care summit report
    • Recent reports
    • Delays to treatment
    • Staff shortages
    • Integrated Care Systems
    • Reduction in training
    • Rationing
    • Cuts to services
  • DONATE