More and more people are travelling overseas for fertility treatment, often to escape rules and regulations in their own countries, according to a new cross-European study. For patients from the UK however, a major reason for travelling was the difficulty of accessing treatment. Many couples who need donor eggs find they face long waits in the UK and may choose to travel to Spain or the Czech Republic where there are more women willing to donate eggs. Age also played a part, as more than 60% of British women travelling for treatment were over the age of 40.
In Italy, freezing embryos is not permitted, so it is perhaps not surprising that Italians are the largest group of people travelling for treatment, whilst in France, lesbian couples are not eligible for IVF, so many same sex French couples travel for treatment. You can find out more about the new research at www.eshre.com
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