Donor conception - patients and treatments

The number of patients is lower than the number of treatment cycles because a patient may have more than one cycle of treatment in any one year
Treatments recorded here as using donated embryos include treatments where both donated sperm and donated eggs are used
If embryos are donated by a couple, perhaps as their embryos approach the end of their storage period, both the egg provider and the sperm provider must be registered as donors. This may take place some time after the embryos were initially placed in storage
These figures include surrogacy arrangements where the commissioning couple has provided the sperm and, where applicable, the eggs
Clinics must check the number of families that have already been created before using a donor for treatment to create another family
Figures have slightly changed since our last publication due to improvements in the quality of our data
The table showing Treatment using donated eggs or embryos was extracted from the HFEA’s data warehouse containing Register data as at 04/01/2012. The table showing Treatment using donated sperm was extracted at 22/12/2011

Treatment using donated eggs or embryos
Year	Patients treated with donated eggs	Treatment cycles with donated eggs	Patients treated with donated embryos	Treatments cycles with donated embryos
1992	389	460	78	91
1993	557	682	116	148
1994	808	1,003	179	225
1995	929	1,114	169	199
1996	1,116	1,351	236	280
1997	1,232	1,480	244	314
1998	1,326	1,592	230	284
1999	1,559	1,872	223	286
2000	1,716	2,067	216	266
2001	1,673	1,944	258	321
2002	1,623	1,900	243	281
2003	1,545	1,800	209	250
2004	1,655	1,915	203	244
2005	1,608	1,885	212	259
2006	1,408	1,661	214	257
2007	1,344	1,530	180	220
2008	1,308	1,460	207	250
2009	1,329	1,474	197	237
2010	1,380	1,506	269	325

Treatment cycles using donor sperm
	IVF with donor sperm		DI
Year	Patients treated	Treatment cycles	Patients treated	Treatment cycles
1992	1,208	1,494	7,425	26,070
1993	1,573	2,002	7,412	24,236
1994	1,578	1,956	7,113	21,485
1995	1,520	1,907	6,198	18,007
1996	1,392	1,778	5,545	14,922
1997	1,254	1,525	5,000	13,308
1998	1,052	1,296	4,519	11,577
1999	978	1,210	4,132	10,183
2000	891	1,093	3,484	8,328
2001	841	1,030	3,143	7,601
2002	812	1,024	3,114	7,325
2003	815	992	3,074	7,322
2004	803	998	2,909	6,892
2005	816	992	2,614	5,877
2006	600	724	2,052	4,246
2007	627	798	1,762	3,871
2008	650	767	1,895	3,933
2009	803	965	1,920	3,850
2010	975	1,200	1,985	3,878

Note: IVF includes both fresh and frozen cycles and consists of those treatments where patients were using their own eggs and donor sperm.

Page last updated: 27 January 2012