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
3 types
Types of Fertility Benefit
Three kinds of support share one name. They do different jobs.
- Treatment FundingEmployer pays for IVF cycles, egg storage, or fertility investigations. Examples: Fertifa, Carrot Fertility.
- Information and EducationClinician-authored resources on fertility biology, NHS pathways, and treatment options. No IVF funding.
- Self-Advocacy InfrastructureStructured 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).
Common Questions
What is a fertility benefit?
A fertility benefit is an employer-provided resource to support employees through fertility treatment.
It can range from funding IVF cycles or investigations, to providing clinical navigation, to offering information and wellbeing resources.
The term covers a wide range of services.
What is the difference between a fertility benefit and OccuFertility?
Fertility benefits (such as employer-funded IVF or clinical navigation platforms) focus on treatment.
OccuFertility is a self-advocacy platform: it gives employees structured documents (GP summaries, manager briefs, OH referral templates) to navigate work during treatment.
It does not fund treatment or provide clinical consultations. OccuFertility sits alongside any fertility benefit.
Do I need a fertility benefit to use OccuFertility?
No. OccuFertility is independent of treatment funding. Employees use it regardless of whether their employer offers a fertility benefit.
It is the clinical-to-workplace layer: the tools that help employees manage their job, not their treatment.