{"id":80184,"date":"2025-10-05T17:57:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T17:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=80184"},"modified":"2025-10-05T17:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T17:57:24","slug":"nhs-chiefs-accused-of-prioritising-single-women-and-lesbians-as-number-of-straight-couples-getting-taxpayer-funded-fertility-treatment-plunges-28-in-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/05\/nhs-chiefs-accused-of-prioritising-single-women-and-lesbians-as-number-of-straight-couples-getting-taxpayer-funded-fertility-treatment-plunges-28-in-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS chiefs accused of &#8216;prioritising&#8217; single women and lesbians as number of straight couples getting taxpayer-funded fertility treatment plunges 28% in a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/10\/03\/12\/92153557-15144361-Under_the_controversial_proposals_trans_men_those_born_as_women_-a-1_1759491354603.jpg\" alt=\"Desperate to start their own families, the 'postcode lottery' has forced some couples to sell their homes to pay up to \u00a320,000 to undergo the treatment privately. Picture: Close up IVF\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-9a618b00-9d25-11f0-8da1-1bd5c793feca\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">NHS<\/a><\/span>\u00a0bosses were today accused of adopting\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-bd05d3d0-9f93-11f0-ae41-3fbd5bdccb0c\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/ivf\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">IVF<\/a><\/span> policies that are &#8216;discriminatory&#8217; towards straight parents.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-15144361\/IVF-rationing-NHS-analysis-prioritising-single-women.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>NHS\u00a0bosses were today accused of adopting\u00a0IVF policies that are &#8216;discriminatory&#8217; towards straight parents. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80185,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80184\/revisions\/80185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}