Going down the private treatment route could cost the couple up to about £9,000 per cycle, according to Dr James Hopkisson, medical director of TFP Nurture Fertility Clinic across the border in Sandiacre.
“Unfortunately there has been a postcode lottery in terms of IVF funding and fertility funding for some time,” he told the BBC.
The private clinic is contracted by the NHS with about 40% of its cycles being NHS-funded for patients mostly from Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire.
Dr Hopkisson said the differences in access criteria across the region was causing unhappiness.
“Personally I think any decent civilised society should be looking at helping people to achieve their family,” he said.
“And in a time where we are seeing national and international birth rates falling actually it becomes more important that we help people have the families that they so desire.”
But under the East Midlands-wide proposal to standardise the policy, people wanting to start a family could only be offered one cycle of IVF on the NHS.
