IVF postcode lottery as Covid causes huge delays to NHS-funded cycles

IVF postcode lottery as Covid causes huge delays to NHS-funded cycles NHS-funded fertility treatment was still crawling behind pre-Covid levels 15 months after the virus hit, analysis suggests. 

On the other hand, private clinics — which can charge up to £5,000 for one cycle of IVF — bounced back rapidly.

Fertility treatments were suspended in April 2020, three weeks after Boris Johnson ordered the UK's first lockdown. The Daily Mail

See also: 

• Impact of COVID-19 on fertility treatment 2020 Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority 
• ‘People were extremely stressed and anxious’: IVF treatment through NHS plummets by 7% in pandemic The Independent