13/11/2025
🗞️Should IVF patients have the legal right to paid leave?
Right now in the UK, they don’t. And for people going through fertility treatment, that means juggling blood tests, scans, procedures and the emotional weight of it all - often in silence, squeezed around work, or hidden behind annual leave and sick days.
📰The article featured in last week talks about Natalie, 38, who has just started IVF after two miscarriages.
In eight weeks, she had seven medical appointments including scans, blood tests and X-rays - some leaving her in pain for days.
Like many, she’s used her holiday and sick leave to make it work, unsure whether it’s “acceptable” to tell her employer.
There is no legal right to paid time off for fertility treatment in the UK currently…This needs to change.
The Fertility Show have documented that they stand by the fact that IVF is medical treatment and should be granted leave if needed.
While maternity rights begin once pregnant, fertility treatment currently sits in a grey area with no guaranteed support or protection. The result? …..
People navigating one of the most emotionally and physically intense periods of their lives without security or clarity at work.
⏱️Workplaces, policymakers - it’s time. …
🩺Fertility treatment is healthcare. And those going through it deserve protection, understanding, and support
💕At Ultrasound NI we have tailor made fertility scan packages and bloods available offering flexible appointments with additional out of hours options and clinic openings for our fertility patients…
You are not alone 💕