NHS Priority: IVF
Infertility is, I am sure, an absolutely horrible thing to experience. A terrible infliction to be affected by, to want to conceive a child and not being able to for whatever reason. However, I can’t help but think that this not something that should be an NHS priority.
The NHS is there primarily to deal with injuries and illness that affect that person’s ability to live their own life, not to dedicate scarce resources to something that ‘only’ prevents them creating another life. IVF is certainly not a treatment that should be ignored, but there are far more important and vital treatments that should be put first.
Until the NHS can cope with providing the standard services, something like IVF should not be a priority for a taxpayer-funded National Health Service to provide. It definitely should be provided, but not to the detriment of other services.
But if this level of infertility treatment can be provided without adverse effect on the core services of the NHS, it should be.
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