{"id":473,"date":"2021-09-28T14:06:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T13:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/remakingthehumanbody.sbm.qmul.ac.uk\/?p=473"},"modified":"2021-11-18T10:16:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T10:16:30","slug":"womens-health-strategy-consultation-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/remakingthehumanbody.sbm.qmul.ac.uk\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Health Strategy consultation response"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In June 2021, Manuela Perrotta and I submitted written evidence to the UK government&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Health Strategy for England. We believe the consultation presents a key opportunity to improve the treatment experiences of IVF patients.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In our response, which you can find in full on our <a href=\"https:\/\/remakingthehumanbody.sbm.qmul.ac.uk\/?page_id=466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Publications<\/a> page, we make five policy recommendations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Women need a more coordinated provision of up-to-date information about IVF, especially information about novel IVF treatment add-ons&nbsp;<\/li><li>Improving the clarity, visibility and accessibility of already available information is a relatively low-cost measure that will bring timely positive change for IVF patients&nbsp;<\/li><li>There is an opportunity for the NHS A-Z website to direct IVF patients to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority\u2019s website for information specifically about new IVF treatment add-ons&nbsp;<\/li><li>Different understandings of evidence should be considered to improve the quality of information on new treatment add-ons&nbsp;<\/li><li>Accurate information about the nature of available evidence should&nbsp;be provided when treatment add-ons are experimental<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>We are very grateful to Inflect Partners for their advice in preparing our submission for this call. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2021, Manuela Perrotta and I submitted written evidence to the UK government&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Health Strategy for England. We believe the consultation presents a key opportunity to improve the treatment experiences of IVF patients.&nbsp; In our response, which you can find in full on our Publications page, we make five policy recommendations: Women need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[21,22],"tags":[11,28,20,19,43],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-topical","tag-ivf","tag-public-engagement","tag-reproductive-technology","tag-research","tag-womens-health-strategy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9YI6o-7D","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":630,"url":"https:\/\/remakingthehumanbody.sbm.qmul.ac.uk\/?p=630","url_meta":{"origin":473,"position":0},"title":"Government plans for a Women&#8217;s Health Strategy in England","date":"7th January 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"In June 2021 Manuela Perrotta and I responded to the government's\u00a0call for evidence to inform their forthcoming Women's Health Strategy for England. 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