Less than half of NHS trusts fund the transfer of frozen IVF embryos, despite guidance saying they should, the London Metro newspaper reports today.
In 2004, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) said that primary care trusts should allow spare embryos produced as a result of fertility treatment - that can be frozen and implanted later - to be transferred as part of the NHS treatment.
But a letter from health minister Dawn Primarolo has revealed that many are still failing to pay for this part of the treatment, and has also revealed a continuing postcode lottery over IVF treatment in England.
Ms Primarolo said that the government recognised this caused "distress to many childless couples".
But presumably she nevertheless intends to vote billions more pounds to the audit-failing EU that could provide NHS trusts with the resources they need to correct this problem. Therein lies the hypocrisy.
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