Question reference: S5W-33492
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 23 November 2020
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Current status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 2 December 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether patients who received two rounds of IVF treatment prior to the change in cycle recommendations, which were implemented on 1 April 2017, will be allowed to have a third cycle of treatment, in line with the service that is now being offered on the NHS.
Answer
The increase in NHS IVF provision which allows couples to have a maximum of three cycles of IVF treatment, is only applicable to patients referred from Primary and Secondary Care after 1 April 2017.
A third cycle is not available retrospectively to those patients that were already in the NHS system prior to this date, or those who have had NHS IVF treatment at any point in the past, anywhere in the UK.