In Vitro Fertilisation
(asked on 9th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women in the UK have had IVF treatment in each of the last five years; how many of those treatments have been successful; and how many such women have had repeat treatments.
The information requested is shown in the following table:
Year of treatment | Individual patients1 | Number of treatments2 | Number of births | Individual mothers who go on to further treatments (in any subsequent year)3 |
2011 | 45,802 | 60,572 | 14,869 | 4,207 |
2012 | 45,617 | 60,233 | 15,343 | 4,079 |
2013 | 47,133 | 61,844 | 16,441 | 3,073 |
2014 | 48,626 | 63,537 | 17,479 | 1,194 |
2015 | 28,4704 | 31,6974 | 8,7704 | 635 |
Notes:
1The count of patients is of individual patients undergoing treatment in each year. A patient will be counted once for each year in which they are treated.
2The figures given are for in vitro fertilisation treatments, including intracytoplasmic sperm injection treatments.
3Further treatment is defined as any treatment that took place following the “Year of treatment” listed in the table until 30 June 2016, the end of the current verified data period.
42015 data on patients, treatments and births only covers the period up until 30 June 2015 as this is the most recent date for which there is verified data on treatment outcomes.
5As the period in which further treatments can take place decreases each successive year toward the end of the current verified data period (30 June 2016), the number of mothers who have gone on to have further treatments is, consequently, smaller year on subsequent year.
Source: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority