Donor conception - treatments

In an egg share treatment cycle, the eggs can be shared with a maximum of two recipients.
With egg share, the donor’s own treatment will be recorded as an ‘own eggs’ treatment cycle.
Treatments recorded here as using donated embryos include treatments where both donated sperm and donated eggs are used.
If embryos donated by a couple, perhaps as 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.
In this situation, donor screening must still take place, no matter how much time has passed since the embryos were created.
These figures will include surrogacy arrangements where the commissioning couple have provided the sperm and eggs themselves. Full donor screening and registration must be carried out.
Clinics must check the number of families that have already been created before using a donor for treatment to create another family.

Graphical representation of table below

Treatment cycles using donated eggs or embryos
Year	Patients treated with donated eggs	Treatments with donated eggs	Patients treated with donated embryos	Treatments with donated embryos
1992	405	449	79	90
1993	584	660	124	147
1994	860	999	195	225
1995	1024	1,115	177	197
1996	1220	1,348	249	281
1997	1335	1,482	267	317
1998	1482	1,605	261	289
1999	1716	1,877	246	288
2000	1904	2,069	230	264
2001	1833	1,944	282	320
2002	1780	1,895	258	282
2003	1689	1,798	221	247
2004	1794	1,915	208	241
2005	1768	1,890	233	257
2006	1537	1,655	227	257
2007	1416	1,514	200	221

Number of patients treated and treatment cycles carried out using donated sperm, 1992-2007

Both IVF with donor sperm and donor insemination (DI) treatments are shown here.
The number of IVF cycles using intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) is included here for comparison.
The major development of ICSI means that as long as some sperm can be obtained (even in very low numbers), fertilisation is possible. Previously, donor sperm would have been used instead.
A small number of ICSI cycles using donated sperm are not included.
Clinics must check the number of families that have already been created before using a donor for treatment to create another family.

Graphical representation of table below

Treatment cycles using donor sperm
	IVF with donor sperm		DI
Year	cycles	patients	cycles	patients
1992	1,511	1,227	26,078	8,809
1993	2,007	1,579	24,233	8,745
1994	1,955	1,571	21,486	8,261
1995	1,909	1,521	18,007	7,122
1996	1,776	1,375	14,920	6,308
1997	1,500	1,216	13,305	5,755
1998	1,253	1,000	11,579	5,114
1999	1,177	950	10,197	4,751
2000	1,060	853	8,352	3,963
2001	959	766	7,588	3,571
2002	981	765	7,319	3,532
2003	946	773	7,324	3,514
2004	939	743	6,892	3,356
2005	918	747	5,874	2,969
2006	616	494	4,249	2,322
2007	711	541	3,878	2,010

Treatment cycles using donor sperm as percentage of all IVF/DI treatments (ICSI for comparison)
	Donor sperm treatments (% of all IVF and DI using own or donor gametes)		ICSI treatments (% of all IVF and DI using own or donor gametes)		All treatments, own or donor gametes
1992	27,589	62%	128	0	44,410
1993	26,240	57%	578	1	46,098
1994	23,441	51%	1,283	3	46,351
1995	19,916	42%	3,821	8	47,331
1996	16,696	35%	6,173	13	48,379
1997	14,805	31%	8,916	19	47,299
1998	12,832	27%	11,901	25	47,044
1999	11,374	25%	12,089	27	45,034
2000	9,412	21%	12,787	29	43,851
2001	8,547	19%	13,893	32	43,893
2002	8,300	19%	14,962	33	44,828
2003	8,270	18%	15,538	35	44,888
2004	7,831	17%	16,763	36	47,040
2005	6,792	14%	18,051	38	47,821
2006	4,865	10%	20,907	43	48,629
2007	4,589	9%	22,531	45	50,560

Page last updated: 24 July 2009