AQW 8792/09 Written question to the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety how many Health and Social Care Trusts provide secondary and tertiary fertility services; and, of those, how many have a fertility nurse advisor working in the Trust area.
Asked by Naomi Long MLA on 29 June 2009
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 29 June 2009
- Answer due by
- 15 July 2009
- Answered
- 10 July 200911 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- No
Answer
All Trusts provide secondary level fertility services. Tertiary level services for Northern Ireland are provided by the Belfast Trust at the Regional Fertility Centre.
All Trusts have been provided with funding for part time fertility nurse advisors as an integral part of their fertility treatment service provision. Two Trusts have the enhanced service in place. The other three are in the process of introducing it.