What are the ages for receiving free fertility treatment on the NHS?
The NHS national guidelines recommend that women between the ages of 23 years and 39 years should receive three cycles of fertility treatment on the NHS for free. However, these are only guidelines and each fertility treatment clinic can determine its own criteria. A poll by the British Fertility Society in 2006 revealed that around a quarter of fertility treatment clinic in the UK only offer IVF treatment women in their late thirties. It is believed that fertility treatment like IVF has an greatly increased chance of being unsuccessful from the age of 40 years.
