Draft guidance for fertility clinics on consumer law
The CMA is inviting views on draft consumer law guidance for fertility clinics. The purpose of the guidance is to help providers of fertility treatment to patients in the UK understand and comply with their obligations under consumer law.
The CMA invites interested parties to respond to the questions in Section 2 of the consultation document. The consultation will be of interest to:
- Fertility clinics
- Other businesses that operate in the fertility sector such as third party finance providers and those that offer complementary fertility treatment
- Patients
- The sector regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
- Professional bodies and organisations that represent the sector
- Charities and patient representative groups
- Enforcers of consumer law such as local authority Trading Standards services
- Government departments
Please respond to as many of the questions as you can and support your answers with any evidence or examples you may have by email to ConsumerLawIVFTeam@cma.gov.uk by no later than 5pm on Friday 29 January 2021.
The CMA plans to publish in Spring 2021 a final version of the consumer law guidance and an anonymised summary of responses to the consultation. Alongside the final guidance, the CMA will publish guidance for IVF patients to help raise awareness of their consumer rights.
These documents will be available on the IVF consumer law guidance webpage and respondents will be notified when they are available.