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The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is the UK's independent regulator overseeing the use of gametes and embryos in fertility treatment and research.

The HFEA licenses fertility clinics and centres carrying out in vitro fertilisation (IVF), other assisted conception procedures and human embryo research.

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Latest news from the HFEA

HFEA reaction to the forced donor insemination court case
29 April 2013
The HFEA is shocked and appalled by this dreadful case where a mother forced her adopted daughter to inseminate herself so that she could raise the baby as her own...
HFEA welcomes the Nuffield Council on Bioethics report on information in donor conception
17 April 2013
The HFEA welcomes this report about donor conception published by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics today.Their recommendations balancing the ‘interests’ and ‘responsibilities’ of all those involved in the fertility treatment process very much mirror.....
‘Test-tube’ baby pioneer Professor Sir Robert Edwards dies
10 April 2013
Professor Lisa Jardine, Chair of the HFEA, said: “It is with great sadness that we have heard about the death of Professor Sir Robert Edwards...

Understanding fertility clinic success rates

person drawing a graphWhat do clinic success rates really mean? Are they that different between clinics?

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