AQW 17691/17-22

Ms Kellie Armstrong
Alliance Party
Strangford

Tabled Date: 21/04/2021
Answered On Date: 11/01/2022
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health what information has been provided to GPs and GP surgeries to inform and update them that they can refer same sex couples for fertility treatment through the Regional Fertility Centre and that being LGBT is not a barrier to access fertility services.

Answer:

The referral pathway for all eligible patients, regardless of their sexual orientation, is through their GP. There has not been a particular information campaign regarding the extension of the eligibility criteria from 1 June 2019. The Department of Health eligibility criteria are freely available on the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust website under the clinician section:

https://belfasttrust.hscni.net/services/rfc/for-clinicians/infertility-referral/