Fertility, Health & Work
Fertility Treatment and Work: Know What's Coming, and What to Say.
Go beyond the policy.
- How your medicines and appointments may affect work
- A quick check-in on your mood and how you're managing at work
- The words, and a plan, for talking to your manager, plus who else can help
Written by a GP specialising in health and work. Your employer never sees your answers.
Show this on your phone or copy it for your GP. You control what's included.
1Current Stage
Ovarian stimulation
2In Their Own Words
I've found it somewhat harder to manage my mood over the last 2 weeks
3Workplace Adjustments That Commonly Help
- Flexible start times for early morning clinic appointments (every 1–3 days)
- Reduced physical demands: avoid prolonged standing, heavy lifting
- Option to work from home on appointment days
4 ways in
Choose Your Way In
Pick the one that fits why you're here.
2 parts
What You'll Find
Both written by the same UK clinician.
Understand Fertility
Plain, neutral, written for the UK pathway.
- IVF, IUI and treatment pathways
- Investigations and recurrent loss
- Donor, surrogacy, same-sex and solo routes
Work & Fertility
Shared language for your GP, manager and OH.
- Manager and HR conversation guides
- Structured GP and OH summaries
- What to share, when, and to whom
4 numbers
Why It Matters
1 in 6
people are affected by infertility at some point in their lives
29%
of people who had fertility treatment used sick leave for it
£217m
annual cost to UK employers
69%
say fertility treatment affects their work performance
"I've been the GP with ten minutes and no context, and the patient who couldn't find the words. This gives both sides clearer language."
Dr Divpreet SachaMBChB MRCGP DOccMedYour Privacy
What We Promise
- Your individual responses stay private.
- Employers only see anonymised group patterns.
- You can delete everything at any time.
Anonymised and aggregated. Employer reports need 250 people overall and 50 per group; clinic reports need 50 people overall and 25 per group. ICO-registered.