IVF Policy Information

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Dear NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group,

1. According to your current IVF treatment policy:

a. How many cycles of IVF do you offer to eligible patients?

b. Do you fund a full cycle of IVF, as defined by NICE, which includes replacement of all frozen embryos? If not how many frozen embryo transfers do you fund?

c. What is your upper and lower age limit that female patients must meet in order to qualify for treatment?

d. Do you fund one full cycle of IVF for women aged 40-42 in line with the NICE guidance?

e. Do you have an age criteria that male patients must meet in order to qualify for treatment? If so, please state what the criteria is.

f. What must the smoking status of patients be?

g. What weight requirement exists (i.e. BMI)?

h. How long do couples need to be trying to conceive before becoming eligible for treatment?

i. Is there a minimum period that the couple need to have been in a relationship before becoming eligible for treatment?

j. What eligibility criteria do you apply in relation to existing children that either one or both partners may have?

k. What policy is in place (if any) for the use of Single Embryo Transfer?

l. Do you fund fertility treatment for same sex couples, and if so what additional eligibility criteria do they have to fulfil?

m. Do you fund fertility preservation for cancer patients and if so what budget is the funding taken from?

2. What is the average cost of a cycle of an IVF cycle funded by the CCG and what does that include?

3. What providers does the CCG contract with to provide IVF services?

4. When was the current assisted conception policy developed? And who was consulted?

5. When will the CCG review its assisted conception policy?

6. Is the assisted conception policy available on the CCG’s website? If so please provide a link to the policy.

7. Please could you provide me with a copy of your assisted conception policy?

8. Which MPs cover the boundaries of the CCG?

9. I would also like to request permission to re-publish the data provided in a publically accessible document/web-format.

Yours faithfully,

Vicky

NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group

 

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From: "Vicky" <[FOI #209824 email]>
Sent: 06 May 2014 10:58
To: "FOI requests at HealthEast" <[HealthEast request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - IVF Policy Information
 
Dear NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group,

1. According to your current IVF treatment policy:

a. How many cycles of IVF do you offer to eligible patients?

b. Do you fund a full cycle of IVF, as defined by NICE, which includes
replacement of all frozen embryos? If not how many frozen embryo transfers
do you fund?

c. What is your upper and lower age limit that female patients must meet
in order to qualify for treatment?

d. Do you fund one full cycle of IVF for women aged 40-42 in line with the
NICE guidance?

e. Do you have an age criteria that male patients must meet in order to
qualify for treatment? If so, please state what the criteria is.

f. What must the smoking status of patients be?

g. What weight requirement exists (i.e. BMI)?

h. How long do couples need to be trying to conceive before becoming
eligible for treatment?

i. Is there a minimum period that the couple need to have been in a
relationship before becoming eligible for treatment?

j. What eligibility criteria do you apply in relation to existing children
that either one or both partners may have?

k. What policy is in place (if any) for the use of Single Embryo Transfer?

l. Do you fund fertility treatment for same sex couples, and if so what
additional eligibility criteria do they have to fulfil?

m. Do you fund fertility preservation for cancer patients and if so what
budget is the funding taken from?

2. What is the average cost of a cycle of an IVF cycle funded by the CCG
and what does that include?

3. What providers does the CCG contract with to provide IVF services?

4. When was the current assisted conception policy developed? And who was
consulted?

5. When will the CCG review its assisted conception policy?

6. Is the assisted conception policy available on the CCG’s website? If so
please provide a link to the policy.

7. Please could you provide me with a copy of your assisted conception
policy?

8. Which MPs cover the boundaries of the CCG?

9. I would also like to request permission to re-publish the data provided
in a publically accessible document/web-format.

Yours faithfully,

Vicky

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From: "Vicky" <[6][FOI #209824 email]>
Sent: 06 May 2014 10:58
To: "FOI requests at HealthEast" <[7][HealthEast request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - IVF Policy Information

 

Dear NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group,

1. According to your current IVF treatment policy:

a. How many cycles of IVF do you offer to eligible patients?

b. Do you fund a full cycle of IVF, as defined by NICE, which includes
replacement of all frozen embryos? If not how many frozen embryo transfers
do you fund?

c. What is your upper and lower age limit that female patients must meet
in order to qualify for treatment?

d. Do you fund one full cycle of IVF for women aged 40-42 in line with the
NICE guidance?

e. Do you have an age criteria that male patients must meet in order to
qualify for treatment? If so, please state what the criteria is.

f. What must the smoking status of patients be?

g. What weight requirement exists (i.e. BMI)?

h. How long do couples need to be trying to conceive before becoming
eligible for treatment?

i. Is there a minimum period that the couple need to have been in a
relationship before becoming eligible for treatment?

j. What eligibility criteria do you apply in relation to existing children
that either one or both partners may have?

k. What policy is in place (if any) for the use of Single Embryo Transfer?

l. Do you fund fertility treatment for same sex couples, and if so what
additional eligibility criteria do they have to fulfil?

m. Do you fund fertility preservation for cancer patients and if so what
budget is the funding taken from?

2. What is the average cost of a cycle of an IVF cycle funded by the CCG
and what does that include?

3. What providers does the CCG contract with to provide IVF services?

4. When was the current assisted conception policy developed? And who was
consulted?

5. When will the CCG review its assisted conception policy?

6. Is the assisted conception policy available on the CCG’s website? If so
please provide a link to the policy.

7. Please could you provide me with a copy of your assisted conception
policy?

8. Which MPs cover the boundaries of the CCG?

9. I would also like to request permission to re-publish the data provided
in a publically accessible document/web-format.

Yours faithfully,

Vicky

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FOI (NHS GREAT YARMOUTH AND WAVENEY CCG), NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group

Dear Vicky,

 

I am writing to you on behalf of NHS Great Yarmouth & Waveney Clinical
Commissioning Group with a response to the information you have requested
pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (2000). I have been instructed
that the CCG would like to respond as follows:

 

1. According to your current IVF treatment policy:

a. How many cycles of IVF do you offer to eligible patients? 

 

3 cycles

b. Do you fund a full cycle of IVF, as defined by NICE, which includes
replacement of all frozen embryos? If not how many frozen embryo transfers
do you fund?

 

The CCG promotes the application of NICE guidelines in respect of transfer
of frozen embryos.

c. What is your upper and lower age limit that female patients must meet
in order to qualify for treatment?

The lower age limit promoted is as per the NICE guidance as ‘Reproductive
age’ and the upper limit is 43.

d. Do you fund one full cycle of IVF for women aged 40-42 in line with the
NICE guidance?

 

Yes, providing the criteria set out in NICE guidance are met.

e. Do you have an age criteria that male patients must meet in order to
qualify for treatment? If so, please state what the criteria is.

 

No.

f. What must the smoking status of patients be?

 

Where couples smoke, only those who agree to take part in a supportive
programme of smoking cessation will be accepted on the IVF treatment
waiting list, and should be non-smoking at the time of treatment.

g. What weight requirement exists (i.e. BMI)?

 

The woman must have a body mass index of between at least 19 and up to and
including 30 prior to referral for fertility treatment and at any time
throughout treatment.

h. How long do couples need to be trying to conceive before becoming
eligible for treatment?

 

Three years

i. Is there a minimum period that the couple need to have been in a
relationship before becoming eligible for treatment?

No

j. What eligibility criteria do you apply in relation to existing children
that either one or both partners may have?

 

There should be no living child from the couples' current relationships,
regardless of whether the child resides with them. This includes any
adopted child within their current relationship.

k. What policy is in place (if any) for the use of Single Embryo Transfer?

Transfer of frozen embryos is as per NICE guidelines.

l. Do you fund fertility treatment for same sex couples, and if so what
additional eligibility criteria do they have to fulfil?

 

The CCG promote application of the NICE guidance which advises offering
Intrauterine Insemination.

m. Do you fund fertility preservation for cancer patients and if so what
budget is the funding taken from?

East of England policy and Collaborative commissioning policy confirms
maximum of one year for the storage of surplus embryos.

2. What is the average cost of a cycle of an IVF cycle funded by the CCG
and what does that include?

Approximately £3 – 4k

3. What providers does the CCG contract with to provide IVF services?

 

There are 5 providers used in the East of England.

4. When was the current assisted conception policy developed? And who was
consulted?

 

Spring 2014.  Clinicians are involved locally, and the policy across East
of England has been reviewed.

5. When will the CCG review its assisted conception policy?

 

The policy is reviewed on change in NICE or regional East of England
guidance.

6. Is the assisted conception policy available on the CCG’s website? If so
please provide a link to the policy.

 

No, it is currently in the process of being finalised.

7. Please could you provide me with a copy of your assisted conception
policy?

 

This will be available under FOI late summer once it has been through the
final review process.

8. Which MPs cover the boundaries of the CCG?

 

Exempt under section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act, Information
Accessible via Other Means.

9. I would also like to request permission to re-publish the data provided
in a publically accessible document/web-format.

 

Clinical policies are reviewed on a regular basis and changes may result
in information published externally becoming out of date.  For that reason
it would be more accurate to signpost staff to the CCG for the current
position.

 

For all future correspondence regarding this request, please quote the
reference number GY-198.

 

If for any reason you are dissatisfied with the response you have
received, you have the right to request an internal review by contacting
us within two months of this response being issued by writing to:

 

Information Governance Manager, Lakeside 400, Old Chapel Way, Broadland
Business Park, Thorpe St. Andrew, Norwich, NR7 0WG

 

Telephone: 01603 257000

 

E-mail: [1][email address]

 

In the event that you are unhappy with the way your request has been
handled, you are entitled to make a complaint by contacting:

 

Complaints Manager (Commissioning), Lakeside 400, Old Chapel Way,
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Tom Kerridge
Governance Support Officer (FOI) 
NEL Commissioning Support Unit
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Number 8 really isn't a hard thing to answer.
More MP's may be covered than the geographical boundary of the CCG if it is commissioning services outwith its own area