More people will be able to get fertility treatment in Bristol, but the maximum age for women seeking it will fallFertility treatment will be extended to single women and transgender people on the NHS in Bristol for the first time.
NHS data from 2019 shows successful live births resulted from 19 per cent of women aged 38 and 39 who underwent IVF, compared with 11 per cent aged 40 to 42.The new policy will come into effect from 1 April, and follows a review launched in March 2021 that gained the views of 438 people and organisations.
The number of independently funded cycles of intrauterine insemination - a fertility treatment where sperm is inserted directly into the womb - needed to demonstrate infertility was also reduced from 10 to six.
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