Clinic staff portal
HFEA has introduced an online clinic portal which centres use to provide information on their licensed activities and provide statutory and non-statutory information.
Centres now have more direct control over the information presented on the HFEA website, ensuring that patients and other interested parties have access to the latest information about centres' activities. Using the portal should improve the accuracy and timeliness of data while reducing the overall effort of inputting information.
The information entered through the portal will automatically update the new ‘Choose a Fertility Clinic’.
Clinics received a secure login and password to access the portal, (distributed to PRs) from 1 September 2009.
Get ready
From 01 October, 2009 the portal will also host a number of online submissions forms, which were previously located on the HFEA website. The first set of online submissions will include the following:-
- Special Direction - Export of Embryos
- Special Direction - Export of Gametes
- Special Direction - Import of Embryos
- Special Direction - Import of Gametes
For the interim all other forms will be in a newly designed word protected format and available on the website portal. The online versions of these forms are to be released later this year and will be made available on the portal.
What changed?
- Centres can access a summary of the information on their licence, including licensed activities.
- Updates can be made to the non-licensable treatments and additional services, for example counselling, patient eligibility, funding and waiting times, which are not regulated by HFEA but are of interest to patients.
- Centres will be able to use the HFEA Clinic Portal to access registry reports and obtain a summary of the number of forms submitted to the HFEA Register, by type.
- The HFEA Clinic Portal will eventually host online application forms and facilitate the submission of statutory information.
When did it change?
The information entered by clinics updated the new ‘Choose a Fertility Clinic’ launched on 1 October 2009.
The HFEA Clinic Portal will host online application forms and facilitate the submission of statutory information.
Page last updated: 20 August 2009