Read all the clinic news items from 2019.
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The updated version of the 9th edition of the Code of Practice comes into effect from today (16 December 2019). This is the first update to the 9th edition, which was launched in January this year.
At the meeting of our Audit and Governance Committee earlier this month, it was decided that we will not launch our new PRISM submission system and Register in January.
Each clinic can now track its own consent rate for Register data research and compare it to the national average, using a performance data measure added this month to your Dashboard on the Clinic Portal.
Following the latest round of user testing we’ve now made the second preview version of PRISM available to several clinics in order to gather feedback.
We have reached now capacity for both of our patient training workshops taking place this September, and have closed registration for London and Manchester.
We've had a great response to our patient support training workshops taking place this September, and as we have already reached capacity for the London date we have closed registration.
Our two patient support training workshops, taking place this September, will focus on practical skills which can be used by all clinic staff to improve the support offered to patients.
We are excited to launch our new series of short podcasts that feature an experienced fertility counsellor talking about an aspect of patient support or a good practice example from an individual clinic. The first podcasts are now available on the Clinic Portal .
It’s important that we get as many different views as possible for our next corporate strategy, so we have launched the consultation survey, to make it easy for people to share their views with us. The survey is open until 18 August and we look forward to hearing your views.
Thank you to everyone who attended our annual conference earlier this month, we were pleased to see so many clinics represented. If you attended the conference and didn’t get a chance to fill out a feedback form during the day then we’d be grateful to hear your thoughts by filling out our short survey here.
The new data submission system (PRISM) will be a big improvement on the current system, easier to use and it will be possible for errors to be identified before data is submitted. We’ll be able to make use of our new Register with better structured data to support patient decision making, clinic performance improvements and research.
This guidance is intended for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to support them in commissioning fertility services for their local population and implementing the NICE guidelines on fertility treatment.
We've had a great response to our 2019 annual conference and this event is now sold out.
Over the last few years we have received an increasing number of enquiries from clinics that have gametes or embryos in storage for which there is no longer valid consent for storage, but where patients wish to continue storing.
This year’s annual conference will take place on Thursday 13 June at Inmarsat, 99 City Road Conference Centre, EC1Y 1AX. You can register to attend the conference through Eventbrite. The link to register can be found on the annual conference microsite.
In the recent Special Edition Clinic Focus we updated on the extension to Article 50, which has been granted until 31 October 2019 with the option to bring this forward if a deal is ratified earlier. Until then please continue the work you are undertaking to prepare your organisation for leaving the EU without a deal and do not wind-down your contingency plans at this stage.
In the recent Special Edition Clinic Focus we updated on planning for a no deal scenario on 12 April. An extension to Article 50 has been granted until 31 October 2019 with the option to bring this forward if a deal is ratified earlier.
As you know EU Exit did not take place as intended on 29 March 2019.
The HFEA, the UK fertility regulator, today calls for a change in how patients are offered optional fertility treatment add-ons.
We wrote to you in recent Clinic Focus articles about EU Exit and the arrangements that licensed clinics should consider if the UK leaves the EU without a deal in March 2019. By now you should have assessed the risks of EU exit to your business continuity and planned and started to implement actions to mitigate those risks. You should have forwarded your risk assessments to your inspector. If you have not done this, you should do so immediately.
The Fertility Forum takes place on Saturday 30 March at the RCOG and is an opportunity for women, their partners and those who want to find out more about fertility, to speak to experts and find out the latest accurate, evidence-based, unbiased information.
The British Fertility Society (BFS) study week this year includes an exciting new addition which we have been working closely with the BFS to develop - the 'PR - Effective Fertility services' course.
As the regulator of the fertility sector we want to support you in your preparations ahead of the UK’s exit from the EU. We recognise that this will impact differently on you depending on your type and size of clinic.
We’ve created a new section of the Portal that contains resources to help improve the standards of emotional support provided in clinics.
The new edition of the Code of Practice comes into effect from today (2 January 2019).