Frimley ICB said: “We are reviewing our position on assisted conception and will be sharing information as this process continues.” Minutes from a meeting in September last year suggest the group may abolish the requirement for same-sex female couples to pay for private treatment and instead allow them to “self-declare” home insemination attempts to their GP, like heterosexual couples, but using “unregulated donor sperm”.Ī draft proposal is expected in the next few months, with the rules set to be changed by early 2024. They added: “When we started out, we didn’t think we would achieve equality overnight and the fact that in 2.5 years we went from feeling like this issue was completely ignored, to taking the ICB to the high court, to the government promising to offer equal access to IVF, is beyond what we could have hoped for.”įrimley ICB, previously called Frimley CCG, is due to hold a public consultation on the issue in November. They told the Guardian that the NHS’s decision was “a great step to achieving fertility equality” and it made them “very hopeful for the future of LGBTQ+ families” in Britain. The influencers, from Windsor, Berkshire, who are known on YouTube as Wegan, met online in 2008 and have more than 500,000 followers on social media.
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