Live Birth Rates

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1st January – 31st December 2017

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) compare success rates for every licensed clinic in the UK to the national average.

Find out more about fertility clinic success rates here.

Definitions

  • Treatment Cycle Started results – include all patients commencing treatment.
  • Embryo Transfer results – include all patients reaching the stage of having embryos transferred.
  • Live Birth – occurs when a foetus, whatever its gestational age is born and shows signs of life.

Fresh live birth rates – IVF/ICSI using own eggs

Age Range Embryo Transfers Live Birth / Embryo Transfer
Under 35 452 35.4%
35-37 191 30.9%
38-39 92 18.5%
40+ 70 8.6%
Total 805 30.1%

 

  • Fresh Livebirth rate per embryo transferred = 20.6%
  • Single embryo transfer in 54% Fresh cycles.
  • 35% of women aged < 35 whose embryos were transferred following IVF/ICSI achieved a live birth.
  • 30% of all patients whose embryos were transferred following IVF/ICSI achieved a live birth.
  • 55% of patient’s having an embryo transfer had a blastocyst stage transfer.
  • 38% of blastocyst embryo transfers resulted in a live birth.

Live birth rates – frozen embryos

Age Range Embryo Transfers Live Birth / Embryo Transfer
Under 35 323 27.2%
35-37 109 23.8%
38-39 64 25.0%
40+ 49 12.2%
Total 545 24.9%

 

  • Frozen livebirth rate per embryos transferred = 19.9%
  • Single embryo transfer in 75% frozen cycles.
  • 9% of patients who had frozen embryos transferred achieved a live birth.

Live birth rates – donated eggs

Recipients Treatment Cycles Started Live Birth / Treatment Started
8 8 37.5%

 

  • Overall 50% of donor egg recipients created enough good quality embryos to require embryo freezing.

Live birth rates – for partner insemination

Patient Number Treatment Cycles Started Live Birth / Patient
37 54 13.5%

Live birth rates – for donor insemination

Patient Number Treatment Cycles Started Live Birth / Treatment Started
36 81 13.6%

Female fertilty preservation service

Patient Number Treatment Cycles Started Cycles in which eggs or  embryos were stored
63 67 94.0%

 

  • Fresh live birth rate per treatment started = 23.4%
  • Frozen live birth rate per treatment started = 23.6%
  • Multiple live birth rate over this time period was 7.4%

 

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