Newcastle Fertility Centre at Life
Newcastle Fertility Centre at Life has been licensed by us since 1992 and offers all fertility treatments, including embryo testing and mitochondrial pronuclear transfer.
The data shown below is old because we are rolling out a new system for clinics to submit their data to us. This is a large project requiring clinics to check data for over 420,000 cycles. Once complete in 2025, you will be able to see data on treatments from January 2020 to December 2023, and births from January 2019 to December 2022.
The Choose a Fertility Clinic pages show data on births from 2018, and pregnancies from 2019. Clinics may have their own more recent data, which can’t be compared to a national average and remains unverified by the HFEA until our new system is completed.
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We inspect all clinics against our standards. This clinic's inspection rating is:
All clinics must have a licence to operate. Our inspectors visit the clinic and look at the laboratory and equipment, the clinic’s consent and other procedures and the patient information. We also interview patients for their views. We use the inspector’s assessment to decide how long the licence should be. This determines the rating.
Last inspection: 2 January 2023
Licensed until: 31 July 2026
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Inspection report and minutes- Interim
23 April 2024PDF | 405 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Interim
23 April 2024PDF | 369 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
09 May 2023PDF | 548 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
26 July 2022PDF | 165 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
17 May 2022PDF | 631 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Interim
25 April 2022PDF | 398 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
11 May 2020PDF | 243 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
13 November 2023PDF | 158 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
13 November 2023PDF | 169 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
21 October 2022PDF | 202 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
26 July 2022PDF | 163 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
19 May 2022PDF | 201 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
19 May 2022PDF | 163 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
28 March 2022PDF | 162 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
27 October 2021PDF | 167 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
27 October 2021PDF | 166 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
19 August 2021PDF | 165 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
19 August 2021PDF | 165 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
29 March 2021PDF | 160 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
23 March 2021PDF | 247 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
20 October 2020PDF | 188 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
23 July 2020PDF | 79 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
23 July 2020PDF | 78 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
23 April 2020PDF | 79 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
23 April 2020PDF | 271 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
18 November 2019PDF | 80 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
28 October 2019PDF | 82 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
16 September 2019PDF | 249 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Progress report
30 May 2019PDF | 123 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Interim
04 April 2019PDF | 353 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
25 February 2019PDF | 78 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
25 February 2019PDF | 79 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
27 November 2018PDF | 82 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
27 November 2018PDF | 83 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
27 November 2018PDF | 81 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
22 October 2018PDF | 75 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
22 October 2018PDF | 75 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
28 September 2018PDF | 75 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
28 September 2018PDF | 73 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
30 August 2018PDF | 64 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
28 August 2018PDF | 1142 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
24 August 2018PDF | 59 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
24 August 2018PDF | 61 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
24 August 2018PDF | 231 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
26 June 2018PDF | 81 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
04 June 2018PDF | 864 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
13 March 2018PDF | 264 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
13 March 2018PDF | 254 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
09 February 2018PDF | 50 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
25 January 2018PDF | 253 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
06 December 2017PDF | 262 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Special Direction for import
02 October 2017PDF | 104 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Progress report
27 September 2017PDF | 164 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
18 September 2017PDF | 261 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Progress report
22 August 2017PDF | 149 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
23 May 2017PDF | 289 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Variation to add treatments
16 March 2017PDF | 279 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation to add treatments
16 March 2017PDF | 95 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Other
26 January 2017PDF | 72 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
10 November 2016PDF | 96 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
27 September 2016PDF | 118 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Interim
03 June 2016PDF | 339 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Other
27 July 2015PDF | 549 Kb
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Inspection report
16 July 2015PDF | 32 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Interim
03 June 2015PDF | 598 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
06 November 2014PDF | 31 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
12 June 2014PDF | 751 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
22 May 2014PDF | 299 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
21 June 2013PDF | 1429 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
23 May 2013PDF | 1032 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
10 May 2013PDF | 966 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
31 May 2012PDF | 234 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
01 March 2012PDF | 154 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
18 May 2011PDF | 154 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
27 April 2011PDF | 1162 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation to add treatments
19 May 2010PDF | 48 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation to add treatments
18 November 2009PDF | 56 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes
15 July 2009PDF | 325 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Renewal
11 March 2009PDF | 641 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
11 September 2008PDF | 154 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
18 June 2008PDF | 173 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
18 June 2008PDF | 153 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
18 June 2008PDF | 207 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Interim
28 November 2007PDF | 638 Kb
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Inspection report
14 February 2007PDF | 134 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes
14 February 2007PDF | 28 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Renewal
29 November 2006PDF | 23 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
26 June 2006PDF | 150 Kb
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Inspection report- Interim
11 May 2006PDF | 145 Kb
We ask current and former patients to rate the clinic based on their experience. This clinic’s patient rating is:
We collect data about the treatments clinics carry out. See this clinic’s latest statistics below.
The data shown below is old because we are rolling out a new system for clinics to submit their data to us. This is a large project requiring clinics to check data for over 420,000 cycles. Once complete in 2025, you will be able to see data on treatments from January 2020 to December 2023, and births from January 2019 to December 2022.
The Choose a Fertility Clinic pages show data on births from 2018, and pregnancies from 2019. Clinics may have their own more recent data, which can’t be compared to a national average and remains unverified by the HFEA until our new system is completed.
Find out this clinic’s IVF/ICSI rates for births per embryo transferred, births per egg collection and multiple births. For greater detail on clinic performance see their detailed statistics below for both pregnancy and birth rates per cycle of treatment and per embryo transferred.
Remember, whatever measure you focus on it can’t tell you your individual measure of success (only your doctor can do that), but each measure does give you a fair overall view of the clinic’s performance.
We present births per embryo transferred as it promotes embryo transfer practices that minimises the chances of twins, which carry health risks for the babies and the mother. However, this measure does not incorporate the outcomes of patients who do not reach embryo transfer stage.
This rate shows the chance of success from all the fresh and frozen embryo transfers within two years of one egg collection. Whilst births per embryo gives you an indication of success rates for just one embryo transfer, births per egg collection gives an overall picture of success rates for a full course of treatment (which can include one fresh and a number of frozen transfers).
For some people, having twins may seem like a wonderful thing, but multiple pregnancies are less safe for both mother and babies. That’s why we’ve set a target for all clinics to have a multiple birth rate of 10% or lower – see how they’re performing below. The professional bodies have best practice guidelines to assist clinics in determining when a single embryo should be transferred and the factors which can make double embryo transfer appropriate.
National rate
It may be tempting to obsess over success rates, but the most important thing to focus on is whether the clinic’s results are consistent with the national average. Try not to read anything into differences of few percentage points, as these are often down to chance rather than being a reflection of a clinic’s abilities.
Reliability range
The reliability range shows how confident we are that a clinic will repeat its success rate in the future – the narrower the range, the more confident we can be. Large clinics normally have a narrower reliability range. That’s not because their data is more accurate but because their rate is less likely to be affected by small changes in the number of births in one year. Small clinics aren’t worse but their success rate is more likely to be affected by these kinds of changes.
Births per embryo transferred
01/01/2018 to 31/12/2018
5 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 25 | 30 | 35 | 40 | 45 | 50 | 55 | 60 | 65 | 70 | 75 | 80 | 85 | 90 | 95 | 100 |
- Clinic's rate
- National rate
- Reliability range
The birth rate is based on
** The number is fewer than 10 so has been removed to avoid the risk of identifying patients.Detailed Statistics
Many patients would like more information on the overall performance of the clinic they are interested in. Our detailed statistics page allows you to tailor your search to better reflect your personal circumstances, but remember the more precisely you specify your treatment options the smaller the numbers of past patients and the potentially less reliable the results.
Our detailed statistics allows you to search for more age groups and to look at pregnancy and birth rates by two measures: birth per cycle started and births per embryo transferred.
There are many reasons why patients may not reach the embryo transfer stage and the merit of this rate is that it reflects the outcomes for all patients undergoing treatment from the start of ovarian stimulation onwards.
In this section you can see the pregnancy rate per IUI treatment using partner sperm.
Pregnancies per treatment with partner
01/01/2019 to 31/12/2019
5 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 25 | 30 | 35 | 40 | 45 | 50 | 55 | 60 | 65 | 70 | 75 | 80 | 85 | 90 | 95 | 100 |
- Clinic's rate
- National rate
- Reliability range
The birth rate is based on
** The number is fewer than 10 so has been removed to avoid the risk of identifying patients.Detailed Statistics
Many patients would like more information on the overall performance of the clinic they are interested in. Our detailed statistics page allows you to tailor your search to better reflect your personal circumstances, but remember the more precisely you specify your treatment options the smaller the numbers of past patients and the potentially less reliable the results.
Our detailed statistics allows you to search for more age groups and to look at pregnancy and birth rates by two measures: birth per cycle started and births per embryo transferred.
In this section you can see the birth rate per donor insemination treatment.
Births per treatment
01/01/2018 to 31/12/2018
5 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 25 | 30 | 35 | 40 | 45 | 50 | 55 | 60 | 65 | 70 | 75 | 80 | 85 | 90 | 95 | 100 |
- Clinic's rate
- National rate
- Reliability range
The birth rate is based on
** The number is fewer than 10 so has been removed to avoid the risk of identifying patients.Detailed Statistics
Many patients would like more information on the overall performance of the clinic they are interested in. Our detailed statistics page allows you to tailor your search to better reflect your personal circumstances, but remember the more precisely you specify your treatment options the smaller the numbers of past patients and the potentially less reliable the results.
Our detailed statistics allows you to search for more age groups and to look at pregnancy and birth rates by two measures: birth per cycle started and births per embryo transferred.
You can view this clinic's waiting times for treatment with donated eggs, sperm or embryos below. Use the table below to give you an idea of the availability at the clinic. Please contact the clinic for the most up to date information.
Ethnicity | Waiting times |
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White | No data available |
Black | No data available |
Asian | No data available |
Mixed | No data available |
Other ethnic groups | No data available |
Ethnicity | Waiting times |
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White | More than 6 months |
Black | No data available |
Asian | No data available |
Mixed | No data available |
Other ethnic groups | More than 6 months |
Ethnicity | Waiting times |
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White | No data available |
Black | No data available |
Asian | No data available |
Mixed | No data available |
Other ethnic groups | No data available |
Eligibility
- BMI limit
- Treats NHS patients Description Information: Treats patients who are NHS-funded.
- Treats private patients Description Information: Treats patients who are self-funded.
Treatments
- Fertility preservation Description Information: Freezing of sperm or eggs to use in treatment at a later stage. See our Treatments section for more information.
- IVF for patients with communicable viral infections Description Information: Services for patients with HIV, hepatisis and other infectious diseases.
Donor services
- Egg sharing programme
- Known donor programme
- Recruits egg donors Description Information: This clinic recruits UK egg donors, rather than importing eggs from overseas.
- Recruits donors for research projects Description Information: This clinic recruits eggs, sperm and embryo donors for a research project in or associated with the clinic.
- Recruits sperm donors Description Information: This clinic recruits UK sperm donors, rather than importing sperm from overseas.
Counselling and support
- Counselling services at clinic Description Information: The clinic has a counsellor onsite.
- Dedicated counsellor
- Number of counselling sessions included Description Information: One or more counselling sessions is included in the price of treatment.
Staffing
- Female doctor available
- Named nurse system
Facilities
- Wheelchair access
- Parking
Address
- International Centre for Life
- Bioscience Centre Times Square
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- NE1 4EP
Contact
P: 0191 2138213
P (other): 0191 2138274
W: www.newcastle-hospitals.org.uk
Licence holder
Dr Louise Hyslop
Person responsible
Dr Matthew Prior
Opening hours
Monday to Friday: 08:00 - 17:00
Saturday: contact the clinic
Sunday: contact the clinic