Question reference: S5W-00475
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 2 June 2016
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Current status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 16 June 2016
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what recent assessment it has made of the NHS's capacity to deliver three full cycles of IVF.
Answer
The National Infertility Group looked at capacity in the four centres that deliver NHS IVF in its 2016 report which was published on 13 June 2016: http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2016/06/9960. Work will now begin to develop a sustainable implementation plan, including timescales for the introduction of the criteria changes in the group’s report.