Sunday 19 June 2022 01:19 AM NHS staff given time off for fertility treatment as proposed IVF law goes ... trends now
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A proposed new law to force all employers to give women paid leave for IVF treatment will come before Parliament tomorrow.
It states that undergoing fertility courses would be treated in the same as antenatal appointments during pregnancy.
NHS England and NHS Improvement have recently given all their nearly 8,000 staff the right to three days off a year specifically for fertility treatment, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
And their partners are eligible for the same amount of time off, which does not have to be taken as full days.
A proposed law that will give employees paid time off for fertility treatments will go before parliament tomorrow. The move comes as Tory MP Nickie Aiken raised concerns that too many couples were going through gruelling IVF in secret. Claire Ingle, 45, (pictured) had three rounds of IVF treatment before giving birth to her daughter, Wynter, four years ago
Internal NHS England guidance states: ‘Fertility is an incredibly sensitive subject. All employees are able to use up to three days paid leave, which can be granted in any one year to undergo fertility treatment.’
All companies will be required to give both women and their partners time off under the Private Member’s Bill proposed by Tory MP Nickie Aiken following concerns that too many couples were having to go through multiple rounds of gruelling IVF in secret.
Claire Ingle, 45, had three rounds of IVF treatment before giving birth to her daughter, Wynter, four years ago. The first two cycles were available on the NHS but she had
