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Dear NFS members
Happy Danish news!!
The Danish government has just decided to draw back all payment for public fertility treatment in Denmark. The payment on both the ART treatments and medicine is drawn back. Thus we will return to the old system from before January 1st, 2011 with three fresh cycles fully reimbursed for the first child and payment of up to 3700 dkk for the medication.
We are all very pleased, however this will not stop our fertility awareness campaign to improve the knowlegde in the general population regarding our patients and treatments.
Anja Pinborg,
NFS president
Dear Members of the Nordic Fertility Society,
The NFS board met in Copenhagen October 27th-28th 2011 with participation of the chairmen of the four national fertility societies as ex officio. This co-work with the national societies is very fruitful as NFS keeps in close contact to what is happening in reproductive medicine at a national level.
The venue for the next NFS congress in 6th - 8th, August is Grand Marina Congress Centre in Helsinki, Finland. A local organizing committee of seven persons with Aarne Koskimies as chairman has been elected. A preliminary programme is almost finished and will be available on the NFS website soon after new year. For more information see the congress link under “news”.
The NFS webpage has undergone a range of updates and renewals among others the payment system has been optimized. We still have some difficulties with the payment system but PLEASE PAY YOUR FEE FOR 2011 and 2012.
The NFS board has decided to limit the Nordic evidence-based guidelines to four guidelines of specific interest for the Nordic Countries. These guidelines are: 1) Psychosocial aspects of infertility problems, 2) Treatment with cryopreserved embryos and oocytes, 3) Quality assurance and statistics, 4) Legal aspects of Infertility Treatment. A range of the other guidelines have recently been updated and NFS appreciate the huge job the authors have done. These guidelines will of course still be available at the NFS webpage, just not referred to as the Nordic guidelines.
The NFS board is currently discussing a change of the NFS to a federation of the four national societies. This change will require a change of the bylaws. NFS as a federation will ease the election of new board members and further make continuity on the board, as board members will be replaced continuously. This reorganisation will be proposed at the general assembly in Helsinki August 2012 and if the suggestion is accepted by the general assembly the bylaw change can be exaggerated at the next general assembly at the congress, winter 2014.
As a consequence of the Danish introduction of partial patient payment of public ART in Denmark, a “fertility awareness” group was organized with the purpose to improve the knowledge and understanding of reproductive medicine in the general population and among patients, politicians and other health care personnel. The results of a telephone survey to 1000 randomly selected citizens in Denmark aged 18-74 years have been published in the Danish Medical Bullentin October 2011 – see link under “news”.
Good news is that the recently elected new Danish government has decided to redraw in 2012 the patient payment on reproductive medicine, which was introduced January 1st, 2011.
Haugesund, Norway has offered to host the NFS meeting in the winter 2014 and Iceland to host in the summer 2015.
The next NFS board meeting will be a telephone meeting and is scheduled on January 25th, 2012
The NFS board wishes you a merry Christmas and a happy new year
Anja Pinborg
NFS President
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Last update 13.01.2012 |