Woman who was infertile at 18 cannot have IVF on NHS - The Telegraph 28th March 2008

Friday, March 28, 2008

A woman who went through the menopause in her teens has been refused fertility treatment on the NHS. Catherine Storey was left infertile at 18 when she had a premature menopause. She is now 20 but has been refused IVF on the NHS because her boyfriend Martin Sear already has children - even though they live 300 miles away. The couple took out a bank loan and travelled to a clinic in Barcelona. But after spending £13,000 on two rounds of IVF, Miss Storey, an administrative assistant with a fire alarms company from Cramlington, Northumberland, is still not pregnant and has run out of money.

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