FOI_7624

Internal Reference Number: FOI_7624

Date Request Received: 18/12/2023 00:00:00

Date Request Replied To: 12/01/2024 00:00:00

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Request Summary: IVF patients

Request Category: Media


Question Number 1: I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information. Please include any private providers you use in your breakdowns below. How many private v NHS-funded patients did your trust treat for IVF in the financial year 2012-2013 and in the same period for 2022-2023? Please can you break this down by year and state whether they were private patients or NHS patients.

Answer To Question 1: 2012-13 = NHS 219, Private 126 2022-23 = NHS 121, Private 91

Question Number 2: How many private patients that you treated for IVF in the financial year 2012-2013 and 2022-23 started as NHS patients via your service? Please break this down by year

Answer To Question 2: 2012-13 = 37 of 126 private patients 2022-23 = 29 of 91 private patients

Question Number 3: What was the success rate for 2022-2023 per embryo transferred using patients eggs for NHS patients compared to privately-funded patients? Please break this down by ages 18-34, 35-37, 38-39, and 40-42.

Answer To Question 3: 2022-23 – Clinical pregnancy rates per embryo transferred NHS Private 18-34 22.45% (11/49) 53.85% (14/26) 35-37 34.62% (9/26) 24.00% (6/25) 38-39 25.00% (5/20) 7.14% (1/14) 40-42 12.50% (2/16) 12.50% (2/16)

Question Number 4: How many embryos have your service destroyed for patients who no longer wanted to store them in the financial year 2012-2013 and in the same period for 2022-2023? Please break this down by year and state the reason given for them not wanting to store them if possible and this information is available.

Answer To Question 4: 2012-13 = 27 2022-23 = 16 Reason for no longer wishing to store not known/recorded.

Question Number 5: How many patients have been treated in a private v NHS clinic in the financial year 2012-2013 and in the same period for 2022-2023? Please break this down by year and state the name of the service commissioned and money spent with them.

Answer To Question 5: N/A – We are an entirely NHS run clinic that treats NHS patients and those not eligible for funding on the NHS on a private basis.

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