The report of the Expert AdvisoryGroup on Infertility Services in Scotland (2000) recommends that couples receiving management inLevel II infertility centres (specialist infertility teams in district generalhospitals) should have access to appropriate, independent counselling for couplesundergoing infertility treatment.The services provided withinthe dedicated infertility clinics of Level II centres should include a staff memberappropriately trained to provide formal, independent counselling.It is also mandatory that couplesundergoing assisted conception treatments regulated by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, as provided in the four Scottish infertility tertiaryreferral centres, are offered appropriate, independent counselling.