At PMQs today stand-in Harriet Harman was asked a question about IVF and said in essence that it should be available on the NHS everywhere and not just in certain areas - the so-called postcode lottery.
IVF should not be available on the NHS for anyone. When the health service began in 1948 it was formed to treat the sick, the elderly, children, victims of accidents and catastrophic illnesses - not to provide people with children that they can't have in the normal way.
Whilst I have sympathy for those people who want children but are unable to have them, it should not be the responsibility of the National Health Service to provide free fertility treatment anymore than it should pay for nosejobs, tattoo removals or sex change operations.
Successive governments have poured pots of money into the NHS and with what to show for it - and now people are dying from illnesses they have caught in hospitals.
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