Approved IVF clinics Oxford Fertility Unit Where do patients from the east Institute of Reproductive Sciences, for patients in the Oxford Business Park North Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 2HW of England receive IVF Treatment Tel: 01865 782 800 [email protected] The NHS and private fertility centres listed below provide www.oxfordfertilityunit.com IVF treatment for people living in the east of England. Hall Clinic Bourn Hall Clinic, Bourn, The Barts and the London Centre You can choose from any one of these centres and your Cambridge, CB23 2TN for Reproductive Medicine NHS gynaecology consultant will be able then to refer you. Tel: 01954 719111 2nd floor, Kenton and Lucas Wing, www.bourn-hall-clinic.co.uk St Bartholomew’s Hospital, West Smithfield, London, EC1A 7BE The Leicester Fertility Centre Tel: 020 7601 7176 or 020 7601 8515 Location Provider Funding Outreach Clinics Assisted Conception Unit, Kensington [email protected] Building, Leicester Royal Infirmary, www.bartsandthelondon.nhs.uk/fertility Infirmary Square, Leicester, LE1 5WW Tel: 0116 2585922 IVF Hammersmith [email protected] Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Rd, Colchester IVF Treatment in Bourn Hall www.leicesterfertilitycentre.org.uk London W12 0HS Cambridge NHS Great Yarmouth Clinic Tel: 0208 383 4900 Kings Lynn www.ivfhammersmith.com the East of England The Leicester Leicester NHS No outreach centre Your questions answered Fertility Clinic Information & support Herts & Fertility The following organisations can also assist you with Oxford Centre, Cheshunt information and advice on infertility and IVF treatment Oxford NHS Fertility Unit The Rosie Hospital, The East of England Specialised National Institute for Health Cambridge Commissioning Group (SCG) and Clinical Excellence (NICE) This independent organisation is The Barts and Commissions services, including IVF, on behalf of all 13 East of England responsible for providing national the London Primary Care Trusts (PCTs). guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and London Centre for NHS No outreach centre East of England Specialised treatment of ill health. Reproductive Commissioning, Endeavour House, Coppers End Road, Stansted, National Institute for Health and Medicine Essex, CM24 1SJ Clinical Excellence, MidCity Place, 71 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6NA Tel: 01279 666969 IVF Tel: 0845 003 7780 London NHS No outreach centre [email protected] Hammersmith www.eoescg.nhs.uk [email protected] www.nice.org.uk

Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority (HFEA) Royal College of IVF is available in the following Includes a search facility for clinics and Obstetricians & Gynaecologists success rates for fertility treatments. This organisation is the professional Primary Care Trust (PCT) areas body for specialists in obstetrics and 21 Bloomsbury Street, gynaecology, students and patients. London, WC1B 3HF • •  27 Sussex Place, Regent’s Park, Tel: 020 7291 8200 London, NW1 4RG • Great Yarmouth & Waveney • West Essex [email protected] www.hfea.gov.uk Tel: 0207 772 6200 • • Mid Essex www.rcog.org.uk • Peterborough • South East Essex Infertility Network UK • Cambridge • South West Essex This charity provides support and • • North East Essex information for people who are suffering from infertility. To order additional copies of • Luton Charter House, 43 St Leonards Road, this leaflet, or to request it in Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex, TN40 1JA another language or format, please contact the East of England Tel: 0800 008 7464 Specialised Commissioning Group – [email protected] www.infertilitynetworkuk.com Communications Team on

(Please see back page for details and websites of all our providers) 01279 666969. Reproduced with kind permission of the East Midlands Specialised Commissioning Group Do my partner How often is IVF and I qualify for treatment successful? IVF treatment is successful in around a fifth of cases IVF treatment? nationally. Success rates vary depending on the couple IVF treatment is provided on the NHS when couples have a involved. medical reason for being unable to conceive a child. When couples living in the east of England receive IVF Your doctor will be able to answer any questions you have treatment, only one embryo at a time is implanted in a about infertility and refer you to your local gynaecology woman’s womb. This process is known as ‘single embryo clinic for investigations. If appropriate your NHS consultant transfer’. To increase the chance of success women who will make the necessary referral to one of our 5 chosen IVF qualify for IVF treatment can freeze and store any extra centres. See over page for details. embryos they produce during their treatment cycle. This means that if their first embryo does not implant they Couples living in the east of England need to have been may have additional ‘tries’ to conceive. registered with a GP in the region for a minimum of 12 months before being able to access IVF treatment. Below This leaflet explains what IVF are some of the key criteria that couples would need to meet. A full list can be found on our website Are there any risks associated treatment is, who qualifies for it in www.eoescg.nhs.uk the east of England and where to with IVF treatment? find further information. Having a multiple birth (twins, triplets or more) is the Criteria greatest health risk associated with IVF. In the east of Age Between 23 and 39 (female) England the ‘single embryo transfer’ policy aims to reduce the likelihood of multiple births occurring through Body Mass Index (IVF) is one of a range Between 19 and 30 (female) IVF treatment. (BMI) of treatments for infertility. It is usually Your doctor will be able to discuss with you the health Couples are not eligible if either partner has offered to patients only after other standard implications of seeking IVF treatment. Previous sterilisation had previous sterilisation, even if it has been treatments have been considered. reversed

Will not preclude patients, but will be taken Previous IVF into account. In line with current clinical What IVF What is IVF? treatment evidence couples should not undergo more IVF is where a woman’s eggs are collected and than 5 fresh IVF cycles in total treatment is fertilised with her partner’s sperm (or donated Couples should not have any children from available in the sperm) in a laboratory. Parental status their current relationship. This would include adopted children east of England? A fertilised egg (embryo) is then put into her Couples should conform to the statutory As from May 1, 2009, eligible Child welfare womb and if it implants, then she becomes ‘Welfare of the Child ‘requirements couples living in the east pregnant. IVF treatment is suitable for couples of England have access to up to three fresh cycles of with various causes of infertility including IVF treatment on the NHS, blocked fallopian tubes or where other These criteria aim to ensure the best possible IVF success rate for infertile couples in the east of England within the regardless of where they live treatments such as fertility drugs have been region’s fertility treatment budget. in the region. unsuccessful. See PCT locations over page.