Employer Guide
What Is a Fertility Benefit?
The term covers everything from IVF funding to clinical navigation to workplace tools. Here is how the landscape breaks down, and where OccuFertility fits.
Published 17 June 2026
The Landscape
Types of Fertility Benefit
Three kinds of support share one name. They do different jobs.
Treatment Funding
Employer pays for IVF cycles, egg storage, or fertility investigations. Examples: Fertifa, Carrot Fertility.
Information and Education
Clinician-authored resources on fertility biology, NHS pathways, and treatment options. No IVF funding.
Self-Advocacy Infrastructure
Structured tools that give employees a GP summary, manager brief, and OH referral template, so they can navigate work during treatment.
Where We Sit
Where OccuFertility Fits
OccuFertility gives employees:
- A structured check-in using validated instruments (PHQ-4 + WAI-1) to document how treatment is affecting work
- A GP summary, a structured letter the employee takes to their own GP
- A manager brief, where the employee decides what goes in it and whether to share it
- An OH referral template, structured for Occupational Health practitioners
Employers get an anonymised aggregate dashboard: no individual data, only patterns above the k-anonymity threshold (250 dataset / 50 per-bucket).