Department of Health Consultation Paper
Providing information about gamete or embryo donors

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ACebabes
- ACeBabes is a network of families following assisted conception offering contact and support from the time of a positive test, throughout pregnancy and as our children grow. An anxious pregnancy, coping with newborn multiples, deciding what to do with frozen embryo's, increasing our families and telling our children, there are many issues which can be shared, and hopefully many friendships to be made along the way. Look at the website at www.acebabes.co.uk for details or email: acebabes@frib.freeserve.co.uk

British Infertility Counselling Association
- BICA aims to promote high quality, accessible counselling services for people with fertility problems. The Association offers information to patients who are seeking details of counsellors specialising in infertility. They can be contacted at: 69 Division Street Sheffield S1 4GE Information line: 0114 2631448

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
- home of HFEA, the UK's statutory body that regulates, licenses and collects data on fertility treatments as well as human embryo research.

ISSUE - The National Fertility Association
- homepage of ISSUE, the National Fertility Association (UK), providing information, telephone counselling, emotional support and encouraging infertility research and awareness.

PinkParents
- a UK-wide organisation of lesbian, gay and bisexual parents, parents-to-be and their children, offering a quarterly magazine, website, helpline, publications, enquiry service, and workshops.
PinkParents UK Box 55, Green Leaf Bookshop, 82 Colston St, Bristol BS1 5BB
Helpline 0117 377 5794 Thursday 7 to 10pm
email: enquiries@pinkparents.org.uk

Progress Educational Trust (PET)
is a charity providing ethical and legal discussion on the implications of infertility and human genetics for the public and professionals. PET holds regular public debates and conferences and also publishes a free web and email news and information service, BioNews, supported by the Department of Health. BioNews also contains topic-based news and background information about sperm and egg donation.
Contact Laura Riley, Communications Officer
email lriley@progress.org.uk or tel: 020 7278 7870

www.repromed.net/gateway
- is a useful link to internet medical and patients support sites

www.donorsoffspring.com
For adult donor offspring who are looking for connections

UK Donor Link
UK Donor Link is a pilot voluntary contact register set up to enable people conceived through donated sperm and/or eggs, their donors and half-siblings to exchange information and where desired contact each other. The register is specifically for anyone now over the age of 18 who was conceived in this way before the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act came into force in August 1991.

Uk Self Help Groups
useful links

Academic researchers

Professor Ken Daniels www.sowk.canterbury.ac.nz/ken/html

Professor Susan Golombok www.city.ac.uk/human/psychology/htm

Professor Eric Blyth www.hud.ac.uk/hhs/research/acs/staff.eb.htm

Alexina McWhinnie www.dundee.ac.uk