Is there any insurance in UK covering fertility treatment.?

Question

Also what is the correct age after which a woman is offered free fertility treatment from NHS??

Answer 1

ivf on nhs is only free for certain situations your family gp has to refer you im on the waiting list lucky for me its only 2 months where i live.. in manchester its 18months

and in england they changed the rules you cant be overweight

Answer 2

Hi,

I had extensive fertility treatment to conceive my kids. At the time I was on a BUPA scheme through my work. BUPA would not pay for anything so I therefore went on the NHS waiting list to see a specialist. During that period, my work transferred to WPA Healthcare and they were prepared to part pay for investigations into infertility - although not the treatment itself. They paid for specialist consultations, lap & dye, hysteroscopy and most of my scans over the years. My GP at the time was good and perscribed my drugs for my first 3 IVF cycles on the NHS.

So, although the healthcare companies don't cover for the actual treatment you can claw back quite a bit if you have cover.

Incidentally, if you are awaiting IVF treatment on the NHS - which was unavailable when I was trying - have you given any thought to egg donation? There are quite a few UK hospitals who run the scheme whereby the donors IVF is paid for by the recipient so everyone benefits and there are no waiting lists.

Best of luck.

Answer 3

I don't expect there is insurance to cover this treatment.
You could check out
http://www.bupa.co.uk/health_information/html/health_news/020905stressivf.html

I think it is always free on the NHS but I think they have different time scales for different age ranges before they will assist with IVF.
There are some IVF centres offering free treatment in return for egg donations.
Check out http://www.carefertilityweb.co.uk
I am not endorsing this site, I just did a quick search, but there have been recent articles in the news about this kind of thing

Good luck !

Answer 4

In my area women aren't elligable for free ivf after the age of 35 because of the slimmer chance of conceiving. However if you are already in the system and waitng your chance and you turn 35 then it is still ok.

Different parts of the country have different rules for who is accepted. You need to go to your GP and ask them to write you letters to the relevent people about your individual case and get you the right information. ( Badger them if you have to as they should be helping you with this. Our Dr was lovely and only too willing to help). That's what we did and eventually got the answers we were looking for.

Good luck

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Very good question they have insurance for plastic surgery, maybe you should ask at the hospital or clinic you attend

Answer 7

YOU CAN INSURE AGAINST ANYTHING IF YOU CAN AFFORD THE PREMIUM