Glasgow Royal Infirmary
Glasgow Royal Infirmary has been licensed by us since 1992. It is a large clinic offering all fertility treatments, including embryo testing.
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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: 24 October 2019
Licensed until: 31 December 2021
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Inspection report and minutes- Interim
18 March 2020PDF | 338 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
18 October 2017PDF | 410 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Interim
20 April 2016PDF | 183 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
01 July 2019PDF | 155 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Special Direction for export
25 February 2019PDF | 45 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
22 October 2018PDF | 87 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
09 April 2018PDF | 41 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
08 August 2017PDF | 211 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
15 May 2017PDF | 245 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
16 October 2015PDF | 57 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
24 July 2014PDF | 378 Kb
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Inspection report- Variation to add treatments
23 July 2014PDF | 378 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
22 November 2013PDF | 299 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Incident investigation
11 July 2013PDF | 27 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Incident investigation
30 April 2013PDF | 476 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
19 October 2012PDF | 743 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
14 June 2011PDF | 604 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes
28 May 2009PDF | 402 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes
23 February 2009PDF | 27 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
01 September 2008PDF | 154 Kb
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Inspection report
14 May 2008PDF | 78 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
25 July 2007PDF | 143 Kb
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Inspection report- Interim
30 May 2007PDF | 147 Kb
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Inspection report- Interim
07 July 2006PDF | 121 Kb
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Inspection report- Initial
07 July 2006PDF | 87 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.
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
01/01/2017 to 31/12/2017
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 Statitisics
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 birth rate per donor insemination treatment.
Births per treatment
01/01/2017 to 31/12/2017
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 Statitisics
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.
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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 |
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White | No data available |
Black | No data available |
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Mixed | No data available |
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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.
- Upper age limit of patients treated
Treatments
- IVF Description Information: A type of fertility treatment where fertilisation takes place outside of the body. It’s suitable for people with a wide range of fertility issues and is one of the most commonly used and successful treatments available. See our Treatments section for more information.
- ICSI Description Information: For around half of couples who are having problems conceiving, the cause of infertility is sperm-related. ICSI is the most common and successful treatment for male infertility. See our Treatments section for more information.
- Insemination Description Information: A type of fertility treatment where sperm are prepared and inseminated into the woman and fertilisation takes place inside her body. See our Treatments section for more information.
- Surgical sperm collection Description Information: Men who have no sperm in their semen can have treatment to collect the sperm surgically. See our Treatments section for more information.
- Fertility preservation Description Information: Freezing of sperm or eggs to use in treatment at a later stage. See our Treatments section for more information.
Donor services
- Known donor programme
- Recruits sperm donors Description Information: This clinic recruits UK sperm donors, rather than importing sperm from overseas.
Screening services
- PGD Description Information: A form of IVF which involves testing the embryos for a serious inherited disease to avoid passing it onto the child. See our Treatments section for more information.
- PGS Description Information: A technique for testing whether embryos have any problems with their chromosomes for patients who have had several miscarriages or failed IVF attempts. See our Treatments section for more information.
Counselling and support
- Compulsory counselling for donors
- Counselling services at clinic Description Information: The clinic has a counsellor onsite.
- Dedicated counsellor
Staffing
- Female doctor available
- Named nurse system
Facilities
- Wheelchair access
- Parking
Address
- Assisted Conception Services Unit
- Queen Elizabeth Building Alexandra Parade
- Glasgow
- G31 2ER
Opening hours
Monday: 08:00 - 19:30
Tuesday: 08:00 - 19:30
Wednesday: 08:00 - 19:30
Thursday: 08:00 - 19:30
Friday: 08:00 - 15:30
Saturday: 08:00 - 16:00
Sunday: 08:00 - 16:00