laurahammond published 'Grave concerns' over plan to reduce IVF eligibility age

A plan to drastically reduce the ages at which women in some parts of Notts can have IVF treatment on the NHS has been dubbed a 'postcode lottery'. At the moment those in the Mansfield, Ashfield, and Newark and Sherwood areas are eligible for treatment between the ages of 18 and 42 - a span of 24 years. But the proposal is to slash this to just nine years, between the ages of 25 and 34. That would put those areas at odds with the rest of Nottinghamshire, where the lower age is 23 and the...