Can someone tell me ......

Sorry i dont know the answer but you could check out fertility associates web site, they have the funding criteria on there.

I know there was an artivle on this in an old Little Treasures Magazine. I'll have a hunt around for it tomorrow and see if that has your answer in it.

Kobec this is what was on the Fertility Associates website. I have tried looking elsewhere as well to find out about the criteria but have not had much luck.

Public Funding Eligibility
The scoring system for public funding of fertility treatment combines points from objective criteria related to the chance of pregnancy (prognosis without treatment, woman’s age, FSH level, smoking) and points from social criteria (duration of infertility, previous children, voluntary sterilisation). The Ministry of Health has set the threshold at 65 points.

Typical scenarios, which gain a score of at least 65, include:


A couple with severe infertility, no children, who have been trying for a year or more
A couple with unexplained infertility who have been trying for five years
A couple with severe infertility, one child from a previous private treatment, who have been trying for at least three years

A lesbian couple where the woman wanting to become pregnant has a biological cause of infertility of at least a year’s duration

A single woman whose investigations are normal, but who has not become pregnant after 12 cycles of privately-funded donor insemination