Dear friends and colleagues,

The Danish government has just decided to cut all reimbursement to assisted reproduction as from 1. January 2011. After that date all treatments must be paid for in full by the patients and Denmark may have no public financed ART program.

The government believes that 200 million kroner can be saved in this way. This will be the first area in the Danish public health system where people with deceases have to pay in order to be treated. This is a major change in the Danish/Nordic well-fare model.

The consequence of this will be a serious drop in number treatments performed in Denmark and consequently number of children born. Currently, the Danish Fertility Clinics are involved in around 8 % of all children born in Denmark. As you may know the experience from Germany was a 50 % drop in number of cycles performed when introducing a 50 % co-payment by the patients.

It will also have a detrimental impact on the science and research performed in Denmark.

INTEREST GROUPS

The NFS board has suggested establishing interest groups in order to increase collaboration between the different professions.

In order to clarify if there was an interest for this discussion took place during the parallel sessions at the NFS meeting in Nyborg.

It has been suggested to establish the following interest groups:

“Clinical”, “Laboratory”, “Nursing/Counseling” and “Secretaries”

In order for these groups to work a steering group needs to be established for each group consisting of member from our different countries.

The Nursing/Counseling group already has a steering group and is currently looking into organizing a meeting in the autumn in Copenhagen.

For the other groups we have some candidates but not from all countries. If you are interested in being part of the steering committee for your relevant group please contact the board.

With the wish of a very good summer

Søren Ziebe
NFS president

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Last update 24.06.2010