UK's oldest IVF clinic at risk of closure amid increasing privatisations

Staff warn NHS provides specialised procedures that private providers would not because of costs or complexity The UK's oldest NHS fertility clinic is at risk of closure and another has been put out to private tender, as IVF provision is increasingly being privatised and rationed. Hospital bosses want to close the internationally-renowned department of reproductive medicine at Saint Mary's Hospital, Manchester, saying they cannot afford to fund a £10m upgrade of the unit, the Guardian has learn...