Infertility and its treatment can be a very stressful experience. Some countries have
legislations governing the provision of counselling for assisted conception treatments. All
licensed IVF clinics in the UK are required to offer patients counselling. Objectives: To
determine the proportion of patients who were offered counselling, the proportion of those
who then received counselling, how useful they found it, and to establish the main reasons
why patients may opt not to receive counselling. Methods: An internet-based survey of users …