UK fertility regulator to issue new rules on expensive IVF add-ons

Patients will have to be told when fertility treatment extras are not likely to be effective

IVF patients will need to be told when expensive "add-ons" to fertility treatments are not likely to be effective, under new rules due to be issued to clinics later this year.

The crackdown by the government's fertility regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, comes as an increasing number of clinics are charging patients top-up fees for experimental procedures that have not been tested in clinical trials, or have been shown to make no difference.