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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>The Government’s
position is that CCGs should be following the NICE fertility guidelines as part of
their National Health Service service offer to local people. 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
the NICE fertility guidelines in full.</p>
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