More gay couples and women over the age of 40 could be given fertility treatment on the NHS under an overhaul of clinical advice.
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice) is expected to recommend that lesbian couples be offered several cycles of fertility treatment.
Their new recommendations, last updated in 2004, would reportedly be for six cycles of articifical insemination, with in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) an option if that fails.
The plans would also include extra provision for women up to the age of 42, raising the current bar on NHS treatment for those over 40.
According to The Daily Telegraph, women between 40 and 42 would be offered one cycle of IVF if they cannot conceive naturally and have not previously had treatment.
The new guidelines are also said to suggest that the waiting period before treatment can begin for couples trying for a baby be cut from three years to two.
Where there is a known fertility problem, this would not apply and couples could be referred for treatment straightaway.
To avoid the complications of multiple births, most women would only be able to have one embryo implanted - with a limit of two for older women with less chance of success.
There will be fears that the new recommendations will stretch NHS funding further as the health service battles to make major savings.
But the higher age threshold will be a relief to many women who increasingly delay because of their careers, only to struggle to conceive.
Sky Political Correspondent Sophy Ridge said: "When Nice looks at revising the guidelines, they don't have to take budgets into account.
"We may see the postcode lottery that already exists for fertility services becoming more pronounced."
Professor Yakoub Khalaf, director of the Assisted Conception Unit at Guy's Hospital in London, told the newspaper: "We see women aged 40 or 42 day-in and day-out funding their own treatment when their own next door neighbour, aged 39, might be having NHS-funded treatment. That is wrong.
"The chances of success for these women are improving and even if we can offer them a one in five chance of a baby, that is important."
A Department of Health spokesman said: "The NHS decides locally on the funding of fertility treatments such as IVF based on the health priorities of their local population.
"However, we believe that all PCTs - and in the future, Clinical Commissioning Groups - should take account of National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines for fertility treatment."
Just under 48,000 women received fertility treatment in 2011 - of which 19,911 paid for private treatment, according to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.
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