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HFEA figures reveal more than 10,000 women had successful IVF treatment in 2006 |
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
 The number of women having successful in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment topped 10,000 for the first time in 2006, according to new figures released by the HFEA today. There were 10,242 births resulting in 12,596 babies in 2006, an increase of 13.1% on the number of births in 2005.
These figures have been published following an update to the HFEA´s interactive "Find a Clinic" guide (see www.hfea.gov.uk/guide). Find a Clinic provides patients with live birth rate information for clinics carrying out IVF and donor insemination (DI).
Live birth rates (the percentage of live births per treatment cycles started) also rose – 23.1% of treatments resulted in a live birth in 2006, up 1.5% for on the previous year.
In 1992, the first year the HFEA started collecting data, the live birth rate was 13%.
The number of patients and the number of treatments also increased. These latest figures show that 34,855 women were treated at UK clinics in 2006 - an increase of 6.8% on the previous year - and underwent 44,275 cycles of treatment.
Overall success rates increased in every age group. For women under 35 using their own fresh eggs, the live birth rate was 31% compared to 29.6% in 2005. For women over 40 using their own fresh eggs, the rate increased from 0.8% in 2005 to 4% in 2006.
These latest figures show:
• IVF patient numbers up 6.8% (32,626 patients in 2005)
• IVF treatments up 5.6% (41,932 cycles in 2005)
• Births following IVF up 13.1% with 10,242 successful births resulting in 12,596 babies (in 2005 there were 9,058 births resulting in 11,262 babies)
• Overall rates of multiple birth – the biggest risk for mothers and babies after IVF - fell from 24% of births in 2005 to 22.7% in 2006.
Donor insemination treatments are down 28%, with 4,225 treatments carried out in 2006 compared to 5,865 in 2005. Overall success rates for donor insemination are up slightly – 10.8% of treatments resulted in a live birth compared to 10.3% in 2005.
Find a Clinic includes details of every licensed fertility clinic in the UK - the services offered, treatments carried out and numbers of children born. In addition to data for individual clinics, overall figures for the UK are also published so that patients can compare success rates for their age group and treatment type.
Find a Clinic, the HFEA´s Guide to Infertility and the HFEA´s website combine to provide patients with a great deal of information to help them make informed decisions about what treatments are available, what help is available and what clinics can offer them.
• There were more than 1.2 million views of the HFEA Find a Clinic website -www.hfea.gov.uk/guide - with each visitor looking at 14 pages on average, showing that patients are doing thorough searches across a number of clinics.
• 70% of patients say that the interactive Find a Clinic information is either very useful or useful
Professor Lisa Jardine, Chair of the HFEA said:
"In the year that we celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the birth of the world´s first IVF baby, these latest figures show just how far we´ve come. IVF is now commonplace, with the number of treatment cycles and births rising yet again.
"A key function of the HFEA is to be an information resource, helping to guide people through their treatment journeys and giving them the information they need to feel properly informed about the choices they are making. We are currently at the start of a consultation process that will look closely at how we might further improve the information that we publish to best capture the performance of clinics. A more sophisticated analysis of national data would be valuable to patients, clinics and the NHS.
"However, the number of donor insemination cycles and births continues to fall. While more couples are able to take advantage of techniques such as ICSI, for those patients whose treatment requires donor sperm, this is of great concern. The HFEA is supportive of clinics that are actively recruiting donors and we welcome the BFS Working Party proposals to introduce a national system for donor recruitment." |
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UK's IVF pioneer receives lifetime achievement award |
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
Professor Bob Edwards has received a Lifetime Achievement award at this year's Daily Mirror Pride of Britain Awards.
Professor Edwards pioneered the research and led the development of IVF, the technique that has led to the birth of more than three million babies worldwide.
More than 100 of the UK’s biggest stars came together to honour the most remarkable people of the year - the nation's unsung heroes.
The Daily Mirror’s Pride of Britain Awards 2008, sponsored by The Co-operative, marked its 10th anniversary with a glittering gala in central London.
Professor Lisa Jardine, Chair of the HFEA, said: "Bob Edwards' pioneering medical research in IVF is something we in the UK should all be enormously proud of. He has brought enormous happiness to millions of people worldwide, for whom it would otherwise not have been possible to have a family."
The ceremony will be broadcast on ITV3 tonight at 8pm.
http://www.itv.com/Entertainment/reality/PrideofBritainAwards/PrideofBritain2008/default.html |
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Could you be an egg donor? |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
My husband and I are both 42 and have spent the last 5 years on the IVF roller coaster. Our 1st attempt was IVF using my own eggs where we were told all my eggs were dormant and that our only hope was either donated embryos or donated eggs. We spent 17 months on the waiting list and last December we were lucky enough to have embryos matched to us. We had a Frozen Embryo transfer in January 08 which was sadly unsuccessful. As we had 2 embryos left we had another try in May 08, but only 1 embryo made it through the thaw, our embryo was also poor quality and we hoped and prayed for a miracle, but it wasn't to be.
We are now back on the long waiting list which at the moment is 14 months plus. We are like many other couples, we long for a family and have so much love to give but age is against us.
This is why we are appealing for someone to help us.
Could you be an egg donor?
Are you having IVF yourselves or do you know of anyone who is?
Would you consider donating some of your eggs to another couple?
If you are unsure of what's involved or need more information please follow the link below.
http://www.carefertilityweb.co.uk/eggdon/eggdonating.shtml
As egg donation is anonymous you would donate your eggs to another couple on the waiting list. By choosing to quote our names Lorraine & Brian to the clinic, you would enable us to be fast tracked to the next available eggs in the donor pool.
This way you would be helping more than one person achieve their dream.
For some people egg and embryo donation is the only chance they will have at becoming parents, it's the most precious gift anyone can give.
If you would like to know more please follow the above link. If you decide this is something you would like to help us with, please contact my clinic
CARE Nottingham -
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TEL: 0115 8528137 and speak to the Egg Donation Co-ordinator Debbie Plowright or Egg Donation Administrator Julie Clark.
Please ensure you quote our names 'Lorraine & Brian' saying you would like to help us. |
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