F-2010-00330 - Voluntary sterilisation
19 January 2011
Summary of request
The Authority was asked for information about the number of patients receiving IVF treatment where the cause of the infertility was related to previous voluntary sterilisation.
HFEA response
The table below presents a count of patient registrations, listed by their first year of treatment, where their registration form gave one of the following reasons for the provision of assisted conception services: female sterilisation, sex change, tubal sterilisation, male transsexual, reversal of sterilization, sterilisation, failed vasectomy reversal, reversal of vasectomy, or vasectomy, or where the comments field on the form indicated a cause of sterilization, vasectomy or sex change.
Year Total
1999 175
2000 209
2001 184
2002 155
2003 153
2004 139
2005 149
2006 198
2007 191
Total 1553
Data held that relates to treatments prior to 1999 aggregates the reasons for treatment into broader categories. From this data it is not possible to separate cycles where the reason for treatment was voluntary sterilisation from cycles where the reason was different but related according to the logic of the taxonomy. No relevant data is held relating to years after 2007 as this information ceased to be collected in October of that year following the introduction of new register forms.
This data was extracted from the HFEA’s data warehouse containing Register data as at 18 January 2011. Please note that the information in our database may be subject to change as licensed centres notify us of information that updates or corrects information they have previously supplied.
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