Fertility

The NICE clinical guideline on fertility covers: the best forms of treatment for people who have problems getting pregnant ways of treating people who have a known condition or reason for their fertility problems ways of treating people when no reason for their fertility problems can be found ...

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The NICE clinical guideline on fertility covers:

• the best forms of treatment for people who have problems getting pregnant
• ways of treating people who have a known condition or reason for their fertility problems
• ways of treating people when no reason for their fertility problems can be found

The recommendations here do not cover:

• how fertility problems can be prevented in the first place
• how a pregnancy is managed following fertility treatment
• investigation and treatment of underlying conditions which may reduce fertility, such as endometriosis or sexual dysfunction, other than in relation to treatment for fertility problems
• the use of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, in which cells from an embryo are tested for inherited disorders before being transferred to the woman’s womb

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