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.

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	394	461	78	91
1993	561	682	118	149
1994	810	1,004	183	226
1995	942	1,115	171	199
1996	1126	1,351	238	282
1997	1239	1,481	246	317
1998	1332	1,595	238	289
1999	1590	1,877	227	288
2000	1755	2,072	219	266
2001	1707	1,945	262	321
2002	1665	1,899	245	282
2003	1567	1,801	212	250
2004	1676	1,916	201	241
2005	1635	1,888	218	258
2006	1421	1,660	215	256
2007	1351	1,530	183	220
2008	1306	1,444	204	245

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.

Treatment cycles using donor sperm
	IVF with donor sperm		DI
Year	cycles	patients	cycles	patients
1992	1,512	1,237	26,075	7,642
1993	2,006	1,590	24,231	7,634
1994	1,957	1,592	21,486	7,259
1995	1,911	1,535	18,007	6,298
1996	1,784	1,396	14,920	5,590
1997	1,525	1,259	13,305	5,106
1998	1,296	1,056	11,579	4,496
1999	1,213	998	10,190	4,224
2000	1,093	898	8,350	3,566
2001	1,030	842	7,607	3,178
2002	1,024	815	7,324	3,142
2003	993	820	7,328	3,112
2004	994	805	6,893	2,953
2005	992	825	5,875	2,631
2006	723	601	4,250	2,113
2007	801	634	3,872	1,775
2008	764	651	3,938	1,916

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

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	27,587	62%	128	0%	44,408
1993	26,237	57%	578	1%	46,095
1994	23,443	51%	1,283	3%	46,349
1995	19,918	42%	3,821	8%	47,332
1996	16,704	35%	6,173	13%	48,376
1997	14,830	31%	8,915	19%	47,315
1998	12,875	27%	11,899	25%	47,101
1999	11,403	25%	12,088	27%	45,055
2000	9,443	22%	12,791	29%	43,864
2001	8,637	20%	13,894	32%	43,915
2002	8,348	19%	14,963	33%	44,832
2003	8,321	19%	15,538	35%	44,894
2004	7,887	17%	16,771	36%	47,046
2005	6,867	14%	18,069	38%	47,820
2006	4,973	10%	20,999	43%	48,736
2007	4,673	9%	22,550	45%	50,722
2008	4,702	9%	23,122	42%	54,620

Page last updated: 23 July 2010