MPs say more than 70% of NHS trusts and care providers are ignoring official guidance on offering infertile couples three chances at IVF, reports the BBC.
First, guidance is guidance, not orders. Second, they're probably not doing that out of spite or through an oversight, but because they think they can't afford to observe the policy.
Do the MPs know that the trusts following these guidelines are following all the other many guidelines handed down to them? Or are they just choosing to economise in other areas? I bet they didn't check.
Why is it acceptable for anonymous, unaccountable managers to make these decisions?
And if the NHS is going to be increasingly short of money to treat illness - as we're regularly told - IVF treatments - a 'nice to have' - shouldn't be a priority for taxpayers' money.
So it's the guidelines that are wrong.
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