Donna Turner is distraught after she was refused IVF treatment with dead husband's sperm [INS Picture Desk/INS News Agency] Nursery nurse Donna Turner, 32, said she is distraught because she won't be able to fulfil her late husband Paul's dying wish. Married for eight months and desperate for children, surgeons even reversed Mr Turner's vasectomy as he lay dying from bowel cancer, so that the sperm could be harvested and frozen. The heartbroken new bride said that NHS staff had turned her down for IVF treatment because, as a widow, she is now officially single. "I wanted his child more than anything. Now my goal is to have this baby which I promised him on his death bed," said Mrs Turner. "For the names it was going to be Paignton-Louise for a girl and Tommy for a boy. "Then the Clinical Commissioning Group refused to fund me. They said I couldn't have the IVF because they class me as single and because he has got a son from a previous relationship years ago." She insisted: "I'm not single, I'm widowed." After meeting on New Year's Day in 2010, Mr Turner popped the question at a New Year's Eve party before … Continue reading →

Nursery nurse Donna Turner has been refused the chance to have her dead husband's baby - because NHS bosses said it would make her a single parent. Today the distraught new bride told how she had been refused IVF treatment using sperm taken from her husband of only eight months, before he died. Surgeons had even reversed his vasectomy as he lay dying from bowel cancer, just months after the couple wed, so that the sperm could be harvested and frozen to fulfil the couple's desperate wish to have a baby. The 32-year-old said that NHS staff had turned her down for IVF treatment because, as a widow, she is now officially single. Donna married Paul Turner in April 2012, but just eight months later he died after being diagnosed with cancer. Having got as far as discussing names for their unborn child, Paul's dying wish was for Donna to have it using his frozen sperm. Paul even had a vasectomy reversed to allow the procedure to happen. However, just months after the 39-year-old's death Donna was denied the 3,500 pounds treatment by her local NHS commissioning group. Still wearing his wedding ring on a chain around her neck, Donna … Continue reading →

Free cycle of IVF offered to couples 9:50am Thursday 24th July 2014 in Ryedale news PEOPLE living in Scarborough and Ryedale will be eligible for a free cycle of IVF. As previously proposed, NHS Scarborough and Ryedale CCG Governing Body yesterday officially confirmed the reintroduction of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) treatment for women in the area. The Governing Body has agreed to commission one cycle for 18-to-42-year-olds. A commitment was given to review 12 months after implementation with a view to increasing the number of cycles funded in 2016/17 if financially viable once demand is established. Carrie Wollerton, executive nurse for the CCG, said: The reintroduction of IVF for couples in Scarborough and Ryedale should be seen as really positive step forward. Its been a number of years since couples in this area had any possibility of receiving NHS funded IVF treatment and this decision brings us in line with other CCGs in the area. Our main aim as the local leader of the NHS is, where possible, to improve access to treatments and reduce variation in services compared with other parts of the country. The Vale of York CCG - until recently the only CCG not to offer a … Continue reading →