Norman Plumpton-Walsh with baby Elliott

A grieving dad said the heartbreak of losing his two sons is a trauma he feels every day, likening the experience to living in "hell on earth". Cllr Norman Plumpton Walsh was speaking about his family’s experience of NHS-funded fertility treatment, in the hope of saving the service from significant cuts.

In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a type of fertility treatment used to help people who have difficulty getting pregnant. It involves an egg being fertilised by sperm outside of the body in a laboratory to create an embryo, which is then transferred into a uterus to achieve a pregnancy.

The proposal to cut IVF treatments has been put forward by the NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board (ICB), responsible for planning local NHS servic

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