Good afternoon freedom of information team,
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 about male fertility services commissioned by your board. I am sending the same request to every NHS Care Board and NHS Trust.
Please provide the following, for the calendar years: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 to date, unless stated otherwise.
• Your current policy on NHS funded fertility treatment, including the number of IVF cycles funded per couple and the eligibility criteria applied.
• The number of NHS funded IVF cycles carried out each year, and the total NHS spend.
• The number of semen analyses carried out in each year, and the median wait in days from GP referral to result.
• Whether you commission a dedicated male fertility service or male pathway, and the number of men referred to a urologist or andrologist for fertility investigation in each year.
• The median wait in days from GP referral to first fertility clinic appointment.
• The size of the urology waiting list in each year, with the number of individuals waiting over 18 weeks for an appointment with a urology department, and the number waiting over 52 weeks, by trust or region.
• The number of established consultant urologist posts, the number vacant, and the total spend on locum cover in each year.
Where held, please break each figure down by age band (under 30, 31-35, 36-40, 41-45, 46 to 54, 55 to 64, 65 to 74, and 75 and over), by ethnicity, and by index of multiple deprivation decile. If any breakdown is not recorded, please say so.
Please supply the data as a spreadsheet, Excel or CSV, rather than as a PDF. If any part of this request would exceed the cost limit, please treat each numbered question as a separate request, tell me which part is affected, and advise how it could be narrowed, in line with the duty to assist under section 16 of the Act.
Please send the response by email to this address.
Yours faithfully,