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Sheffield Health Authority Fertility Treatment

EDM number 1338 in 1993-94, proposed by Clive Betts on 16/06/1994.

That this House expresses extreme concern at the policy of Sheffield Health Authority to refuse fertility advice and fertility treatment on the National Health Service to anyone over the age of 35 years; further notes with concern that this policy is applied to patients already receiving treatment who have that treatment on the Health Service stopped once they reach 35 years and that all patients who are receiving treatment on the Health Service stopped once they reach 35 years and that all patients who are receiving treatment on the Health Service are informed of the name of a consultant and a standard list of charges for which the same treatment can be paid for privately; regards such a policy as an infringement of the basic rights of individuals who have paid into the National Health Service and who are being refused treatment under it and that, effectively, under this policy, people are denied the help to have children if they cannot afford to pay for it; further notes that the Sheffield Health Authority is also operating a policy whereby couples are refused fertility advice and treatment if either one of them has had a child by a previous relationship; therefore calls for a thorough investigation into the policies of the Sheffield Health Authority which are not replicated by many other health authorities in the country; and demands that the Government intervene to stop the refusal to treat solely on the grounds of age in order to implement in practice its opposition to age discrimination which was expressed recently to this House.

This motion has been signed by a total of 30 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Clive Betts16/06/1994Sheffield, AttercliffeProposed
Helen Jackson16/06/1994Sheffield, HillsboroughSigned
Bill Michie16/06/1994Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Richard Caborn16/06/1994Sheffield CentralSigned
David Blunkett16/06/1994Sheffield, BrightsideSigned
Bridget Prentice20/06/1994Lewisham EastSigned
Eric Illsley21/06/1994Barnsley CentralSigned
Mike Watson21/06/1994Glasgow CentralSigned
Harry Barnes21/06/1994North East DerbyshireSigned
Jeremy Corbyn21/06/1994Islington NorthSigned
Ronnie Campbell21/06/1994Blyth ValleySigned
Alice Mahon21/06/1994HalifaxSigned
Peter Hardy21/06/1994WentworthSigned
Dennis Skinner21/06/1994BolsoverSigned
John Heppell22/06/1994Nottingham EastSigned
Mike Hall22/06/1994Warrington SouthSigned
Robert Litherland22/06/1994Manchester CentralSigned
Lynne Jones22/06/1994Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Roy Hughes22/06/1994Newport EastSigned
Barry Sheerman22/06/1994HuddersfieldSigned
Richard Burden23/06/1994Birmingham, NorthfieldSigned
Jim Dowd23/06/1994Lewisham WestSigned
Win Griffiths23/06/1994BridgendSigned
Denis MacShane24/06/1994RotherhamSigned
Dennis Turner30/06/1994Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Michael Connarty05/07/1994Falkirk EastSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours07/07/1994WorkingtonSigned
Audrey Wise14/07/1994PrestonSigned
Mike Gapes20/07/1994Ilford SouthSigned
John Gunnell20/07/1994Leeds South and MorleySigned

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