Meeting at the House of Commons

I've meant to tell you about the meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Infertility for weeks, but am only now finally getting round to it - the picture shows Infertility Network UK Chief Executive Clare Lewis-Jones with the group's Chair, MP for Dartford Gareth Johnson.  Sadly, only one other MP came to join the meeting which was a great shame as it was an opportunity to show support and to help to raise awareness. It was fortunate that so many of those with an interest in fertility who had been invited by the National Infertility Awareness Campaign did turn up - making the meeting feel very well attended.

Clare Lewis-Jones presented the findings of some very interesting research carried out by the National Infertility Awareness Campaign which showed that more than half of all fertility patients had found their GP to be either unhelpful or lacking in knowledge about infertility and treatments when they visited. It must be very difficult for GPs who are expected to be up to date with every health problem and every potential treatment, but one of the problems for fertility patients is the lack of time that they have to give in an appointment when discussing a fertility problem is often difficult and upsetting.

Let's hope that more MPs make time to come along to the next meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Infertility to show their support and to help increase understanding.