Events the Trust is involved in or supports:

Donor Conception Parenthood Workshops

The Donor Conception Network is running workshops for people who are or are considering becoming parents through donated eggs or sperm.

For more information see the Donor Conception Network Preparation for Parenthood web pages.

HFEA Open Authority Meeting – 8 September – central London

The next HFEA Open Authority meeting will be held in central London on the 8th September.

Authority meetings are held to decide HFEA policy and practice and details of agenda will be published shortly on the public events section of the HFEA website at http://www.hfea.gov.uk/public-events.html

In the build up to next year's public consultation on the HFEA's Donation Review, the Authority will be considering evidence and analysis on donor compensation, reimbursement and benefits in kind and the donor family limit.

If you would like to attend please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with your name, the organisation, if any, you represent and your interest in fertility treatment and research using sperm, eggs and embryos.

Progress Educational Trust’s Annual Conference

‘Passport to Parenthood: The Evidence and Ethics behind Cross-Border Reproductive Care’

24 November 2010, 9.30am-5pm at the Institute of Child Health, Guildford Street, London

Cross-border reproductive care - popularly referred to as 'fertility tourism' - is the booming phenomenon of individuals and couples travelling overseas for fertility treatment.

Many patients are travelling overseas for fertility treatment and Cross-Border Reproductive Care (CBRC) raises many different ethical, legal and medical issues. A key question that the conference will address is whether CBRC is a problem or a solution. Headlines such as 'Doctors warn that NHS is picking up the bill for costly fertility tourism' (Daily Mail); 'Health risks for women seeking cheap fertility treatment abroad' (Daily Mirror) and 'Couples warned of dangers in fertility tourism' (Daily Telegraph) suggest that it is problematic. However, headlines such as 'Couples are driven to IVF tourism by ethical disparities across Europe' and 'Britons fertility tourists go east for cheaper IVF' (both from The Times) suggest that CBRC is a solution.

This PET discussion conference will explore every aspect of cross-border reproductive care. Researchers investigating the scale and causes of the phenomenon will present their findings, while experts from various disciplines will offer contrasting perspectives on the ethical, practical and legal ramifications. In the PET tradition, following introductory presentations the bulk of each session's running time will be devoted to soliciting questions and comments from the audience. The conference will ask whether cross-border reproductive care is best understood as a problem, or as a solution to a problem – join us and let us know your views.

For further information visit www.progress.org.uk/conference2010 or email Sandy Starr This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it