Ninewells Hospital
Ninewells Hospital has been licensed by us since 1992. It is a medium-sized clinic offering all fertility treatments.
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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: 25 April 2019
Licensed until: 30 September 2025
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Inspection report and minutes- Interim
25 September 2023PDF | 405 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
25 July 2022PDF | 605 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
17 August 2021PDF | 168 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Special Direction for import
16 April 2021PDF | 131 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
23 March 2021PDF | 247 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
18 March 2020PDF | 153 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Interim
23 July 2019PDF | 315 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
25 July 2017PDF | 442 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Interim
21 July 2015PDF | 156 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
08 May 2014PDF | 29 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
21 March 2014PDF | 50 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
19 July 2013PDF | 354 Kb
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Inspection report- Variation of premises
20 April 2012PDF | 487 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
04 November 2011PDF | 199 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
15 July 2011PDF | 647 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
12 August 2009PDF | 598 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes
20 May 2009PDF | 508 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
26 March 2009PDF | 453 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
18 June 2008PDF | 122 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes
24 April 2008PDF | 24 Kb
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Inspection report
05 February 2008PDF | 199 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
20 June 2007PDF | 276 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
09 May 2007PDF | 851 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes
26 April 2007PDF | 22 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes
01 June 2006PDF | 19 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
01/01/2018 to 31/12/2018
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- 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 birth rate per donor insemination treatment.
Births per treatment
01/01/2018 to 31/12/2018
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- Clinic's rate
- National rate
- Reliability range
Consistent with national average Description Information: Taking into account the number of embryos in the calculation, this shows whether the clinic’s rate is below, consistent with or above the rate for all clinics across the UK. Small differences between clinics’ rates often do not reflect any real difference in performance.
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 | More than 6 months |
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 | No data available |
Black | No data available |
Asian | Immediately available |
Mixed | No data available |
Other ethnic groups | No data available |
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
- Patients from abroad Description Information: Treats patients from outside the UK.
- 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.
- 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
- Compulsory counselling for donors
- 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
Facilities
- Wheelchair access
- Parking
Address
- Assisted Conception Unit, Ward 35
- Ninewells Hospital
- Dundee
- DD1 9SY
Contact
P: 01382496475
F: 01382 633853
E: tay.acusecretarial@nhs.scot
Licence holder
Person responsible
Opening hours
Monday to Friday: 08:00 - 17:00
Saturday: 08:00 - 12:00
Sunday: 08:00 - 12:00