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.
MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
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Clive Betts | 16/06/1994 | Sheffield, Attercliffe | Proposed | |
Helen Jackson | 16/06/1994 | Sheffield, Hillsborough | Signed | |
Bill Michie | 16/06/1994 | Sheffield, Heeley | Signed | |
Richard Caborn | 16/06/1994 | Sheffield Central | Signed | |
David Blunkett | 16/06/1994 | Sheffield, Brightside | Signed | |
Bridget Prentice | 20/06/1994 | Lewisham East | Signed | |
Eric Illsley | 21/06/1994 | Barnsley Central | Signed | |
Mike Watson | 21/06/1994 | Glasgow Central | Signed | |
Harry Barnes | 21/06/1994 | North East Derbyshire | Signed | |
Jeremy Corbyn | 21/06/1994 | Islington North | Signed | |
Ronnie Campbell | 21/06/1994 | Blyth Valley | Signed | |
Alice Mahon | 21/06/1994 | Halifax | Signed | |
Peter Hardy | 21/06/1994 | Wentworth | Signed | |
Dennis Skinner | 21/06/1994 | Bolsover | Signed | |
John Heppell | 22/06/1994 | Nottingham East | Signed | |
Mike Hall | 22/06/1994 | Warrington South | Signed | |
Robert Litherland | 22/06/1994 | Manchester Central | Signed | |
Lynne Jones | 22/06/1994 | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Signed | |
Roy Hughes | 22/06/1994 | Newport East | Signed | |
Barry Sheerman | 22/06/1994 | Huddersfield | Signed | |
Richard Burden | 23/06/1994 | Birmingham, Northfield | Signed | |
Jim Dowd | 23/06/1994 | Lewisham West | Signed | |
Win Griffiths | 23/06/1994 | Bridgend | Signed | |
Denis MacShane | 24/06/1994 | Rotherham | Signed | |
Dennis Turner | 30/06/1994 | Wolverhampton South East | Signed | |
Michael Connarty | 05/07/1994 | Falkirk East | Signed | |
Dale Campbell-Savours | 07/07/1994 | Workington | Signed | |
Audrey Wise | 14/07/1994 | Preston | Signed | |
Mike Gapes | 20/07/1994 | Ilford South | Signed | |
John Gunnell | 20/07/1994 | Leeds South and Morley | Signed |
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