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<p>The level of provision of local health services available to patients, including
fertility treatment, is, and has been since the 1990s, a matter for local healthcare
commissioners. Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have a statutory responsibility
to commission healthcare services including fertility services that meet the needs
of their whole population.</p><p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s
guidance for commissioners is a new tool to help them implement the National Institute
for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Fertility Guidelines.</p><p>On 17 June 2019,
the then Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Mental Health, Inequalities and
Suicide Prevention (Jackie Doyle-Price MP) wrote to the Chief Executives of all CCGs
in England to promote the guidance and benchmark price, and strongly encourage them
to implement fully the NICE Fertility Guidelines.</p>
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