Your fertility treatment & storage options

  • Your treatment options

    Find information about fertility and infertility treatments available in the UK, including IVF, donor insemination, ICSI and more.

  • Your storage options

    When going through treatment, you may need to store sperm, eggs or embryos for later use. Find out your options.

  • Using donated sperm, eggs or embryos in your treatment

    Donor conception is using sperm, eggs or embryos donated by someone else in your fertility treatment.

  • When treatment fails, what next?

    Sometimes treatment doesn’t work and you may need time to recover physically and emotionally, or you may simply decide not to pursue further treatment.

  • Risks of fertility treatment

    Like all medical treatments, fertility treatment carries some risks and your clinic should discuss these with you before you go ahead.

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Page last updated: 28 August 2009

HFEA glossary

          Find out the meanings of commonly used fertility treatment terms.

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Find out the meanings of commonly used fertility treatment terms.

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