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Change in law will allow people with non-transmissible HIV to donate gametes to partners.

• Updated: 15 May 2024

End of outdated law which requires same-sex couples to pay up to £1,000 for safety screening when accessing fertility treatment.

• Updated: 25 October 2023

A year on from its Women’s Health Strategy, the government has announced a package of new measures to boost the health and wellbeing of women and girls.

• Updated: 22 July 2023

Report published summarising written responses to the women's health call for evidence from 436 organisations and experts in women's health.

• Updated: 13 April 2022

The Vision for Women’s Health has been published, which sets out key government commitments on women’s health and inequality.

• Updated: 23 December 2021

The Consortium brings together 16 leading organisations, spanning the NHS, regulators, and leading third sector and charitable organisations

• Updated: 11 February 2021

The CMA is consulting on draft guidance to help fertility clinics understand and comply with their obligations under consumer law.

• Updated: 3 November 2020

New guidance will allow clinics to reopen if they can prove measures to protect staff and patients are in place.

• Updated: 5 May 2020

The storage time will be extended by 2 years so that those undergoing fertility treatment during the coronavirus outbreak have more time to continue treatment.

• Updated: 27 April 2020

The government is seeking views on reviewing the current 10-year storage limit for eggs, sperm and embryos, to give more people the opportunity to start a family.

• Updated: 11 February 2020

Plans to add folic acid to flour in the UK could prevent up to 200 birth defects a year, Public Health Minister, Seema Kennedy, announced today.

• Updated: 13 June 2019