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【medical-news】Fertility retreat to be launched
HELEN PUTTICK, Health Correspondent October 30 2006
A fertility retreat where women receive therapies and guidance deemed to enhance their chances of conceiving is being launched in Scotland.
Patients will pay £1200 plus hotel fees for the five-day residential programme, which includes sessions with holistic practitioners from Harley Street.
The project, Nurture Fertility, is based on a model from the US which is reported to have had a 75% success rate in the first five years, although no infertility treatment is included.
It has been set up by Anne Marie Alexander, a former marketing manager for healthcare at Boots, who lives in Glasgow and who is herself undergoing IVF.
The first retreat will be run for 30 people at The Scotsman Hotel in Edinburgh in January and places have already been booked. Mrs Alexander expects to run a further two residential programmes elsewhere in the UK next year and her longer term business plan also includes opening a Scottish clinic where the therapies – such as acupuncture and stress management – would be available.
While noting there are potential health benefits, doctors and patient groups have sounded a note of caution against raising the expectations of childless couples.
Experts have warned success rates can be misleading, stressing the likelihood of pregnancy reduces the longer couples have been trying.
Professor Richard Fleming, who has recently left Glasgow Royal Infirmary to run a private IVF clinic in the city, said: "The raising of false hopes is something you have to be careful of."
However, he added: "If you have got money to spend, it is very unlikely to do you any harm."
A fertility retreat where women receive therapies and guidance deemed to enhance their chances of conceiving is being launched in Scotland.
Patients will pay £1200 plus hotel fees for the five-day residential programme, which includes sessions with holistic practitioners from Harley Street.
The project, Nurture Fertility, is based on a model from the US which is reported to have had a 75% success rate in the first five years, although no infertility treatment is included.
It has been set up by Anne Marie Alexander, a former marketing manager for healthcare at Boots, who lives in Glasgow and who is herself undergoing IVF.
The first retreat will be run for 30 people at The Scotsman Hotel in Edinburgh in January and places have already been booked. Mrs Alexander expects to run a further two residential programmes elsewhere in the UK next year and her longer term business plan also includes opening a Scottish clinic where the therapies – such as acupuncture and stress management – would be available.
While noting there are potential health benefits, doctors and patient groups have sounded a note of caution against raising the expectations of childless couples.
Experts have warned success rates can be misleading, stressing the likelihood of pregnancy reduces the longer couples have been trying.
Professor Richard Fleming, who has recently left Glasgow Royal Infirmary to run a private IVF clinic in the city, said: "The raising of false hopes is something you have to be careful of."
However, he added: "If you have got money to spend, it is very unlikely to do you any harm."
A fertility retreat where women receive therapies and guidance deemed to enhance their chances of conceiving is being launched in Scotland.
Patients will pay £1200 plus hotel fees for the five-day residential programme, which includes sessions with holistic practitioners from Harley Street.
The project, Nurture Fertility, is based on a model from the US which is reported to have had a 75% success rate in the first five years, although no infertility treatment is included.
It has been set up by Anne Marie Alexander, a former marketing manager for healthcare at Boots, who lives in Glasgow and who is herself undergoing IVF.
The first retreat will be run for 30 people at The Scotsman Hotel in Edinburgh in January and places have already been booked. Mrs Alexander expects to run a further two residential programmes elsewhere in the UK next year and her longer term business plan also includes opening a Scottish clinic where the therapies – such as acupuncture and stress management – would be available.
While noting there are potential health benefits, doctors and patient groups have sounded a note of caution against raising the expectations of childless couples.
Experts have warned success rates can be misleading, stressing the likelihood of pregnancy reduces the longer couples have been trying.
Professor Richard Fleming, who has recently left Glasgow Royal Infirmary to run a private IVF clinic in the city, said: "The raising of false hopes is something you have to be careful of."
However, he added: "If you have got money to spend, it is very unlikely to do you any harm."
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