The Lister Fertility Clinic
The Lister Fertility Clinic has been licensed by us since 1992 and offers all fertility treatments, including embryo testing.
We are in the process of updating the data on our Choose a Fertility Clinic pages in stages. Please note the date of the information shown on each clinic’s page. This update is a large project requiring clinics to check data for over 420,000 cycles. Once complete in late 2025, you will be able to see full data on treatments, pregnancies and births from January 2022 to December 2024.
The Choose a Fertility Clinic ‘detailed statistics’ pages show data on births from 2018 and pregnancies from 2019. Clinics may have their own more recent data, which shouldn’t be compared with a national average because clinics will show their data in a variety of ways and their data remains unverified by the HFEA.
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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: 30 August 2022
Licensed until: 28 February 2027
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Inspection report and minutes- Interim
03 October 2024PDF | 358 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
19 December 2022PDF | 535 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
14 October 2024PDF | 144 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
18 September 2024PDF | 171 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
19 September 2023PDF | 166 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
26 April 2022PDF | 184 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
20 December 2021PDF | 119 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
21 June 2021PDF | 132 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
23 March 2021PDF | 247 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Interim
04 February 2020PDF | 394 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
25 June 2019PDF | 54 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
16 April 2018PDF | 217 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
09 April 2018PDF | 43 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
20 December 2017PDF | 408 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Incident investigation
23 November 2017PDF | 155 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Other
05 September 2017PDF | 801 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
25 July 2017PDF | 219 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
11 July 2016PDF | 94 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Interim
25 January 2016PDF | 159 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Special Direction for export
12 August 2015PDF | 56 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Special Direction for export
12 August 2015PDF | 37 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
12 May 2015PDF | 35 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Special Direction for export
07 April 2015PDF | 34 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
13 November 2014PDF | 35 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
13 November 2014PDF | 33 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
11 March 2014PDF | 151 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
11 March 2014PDF | 152 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
11 March 2014PDF | 151 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
05 July 2013PDF | 741 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- PGD
19 July 2012PDF | 156 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
20 December 2011PDF | 700 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
27 January 2010PDF | 649 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation to add treatments
28 May 2009PDF | 420 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes
23 February 2009PDF | 27 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
28 January 2008PDF | 167 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes
09 January 2008PDF | 25 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes
13 September 2006PDF | 27 Kb
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Inspection report- Renewal
25 July 2006PDF | 116 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.
We are in the process of updating the data on our Choose a Fertility Clinic pages in stages. Please note the date of the information shown on each clinic’s page . This update is a large project requiring clinics to check data for over 420,000 cycles. You can now see data on births for treatments in 2022 on this page. Once complete in late 2025, you will be able to see full data on treatments, pregnancies and births from January 2022 to December 2024.
The Choose a Fertility Clinic ‘detailed statistics’ pages show data on births from 2018 and pregnancies from 2019. Clinics may have their own more recent data, which shouldn’t be compared with a national average because clinics will show their data in a variety of ways and their data remains unverified by the HFEA.
Find out a clinic’s IVF/ICSI rates for births per embryo transferred for all treatment types, and a separate figure for stimulated fresh own egg cycles only as well as the clinic’s multiple birth rate. For greater detail on clinic performance see their detailed statistics below. You could look at other data such as pregnancy and birth rates per cycle of treatment and per embryo transferred (please note all detailed statistics data is currently from 2018/19 and will be updated in late 2025).
Remember, whatever measure you focus on it can’t tell you your individual chance of success (only your doctor can do that), but each measure does give you a fair overall view of the clinic’s performance.
We show the number of births per embryo transferred as it promotes embryo transfer practices that minimise the chances of twins, which carry health risks for the babies and the mother. We calculate the overall average births per embryo transferred for all treatments at the clinic (including fresh cycles, frozen transfers, treatments using donor eggs, and treatment using PGT-A) and also for the subset of fresh stimulated embryos involving the patient’s own eggs.
However, this measure does not incorporate the outcomes of patients who do not reach embryo transfer stage.
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 a few percentage points above or below the national average, 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.
Interpreting this information Description Helpful information on how to interpret the results on this page
There are two rates shown for births per embryo transferred. The first one shows the chance of having a baby per embryo transferred, when you take all the different types of treatment into account. Some treatment types might affect this figure, for example by increasing the rate. In particular, if a clinic carries out a number of cycles using donor eggs and/or PGT-A that is higher than the national average, it can be harder to compare the clinic’s rate against the UK average and against other clinics. Where this is the case, we have noted this on the clinic’s page.
For PGT-A, this is because the headline figure is per embryo transferred. In PGT-A, embryos are selected by looking for abnormalities in their chromosomes, as embryos that appear to have missing or extra chromosomes have less chance of a developing into a baby. Patients having embryos transferred with a normal chromosome number may therefore have a higher chance of having a baby from that particular embryo. However, the test often reduces the number of embryos available for transfer and may mean that there are no embryos to transfer. PGT-A occasionally leads to the exclusion of an embryo that would in fact have developed normally. This means while the chance of a baby per embryo transferred may be higher, if we look at the chance of having a baby for each cycle of treatment started, it may be lower. Evidence shows that for most patients starting treatment, PGT-A does not improve the chances of having a baby. For more information about PGT-A please see our add-ons page
Also, the chance of having a baby with IVF using donor eggs is generally higher compared with IVF using a patient’s own eggs, particularly if they are older than 38. This is because the health and age of the egg donor influences the chance of a baby being born. Egg donors are screened and are under the age of 36, so there is a higher chance of a baby being born, especially for patients who are older, have poor quality eggs, or produce a low number of eggs. More information about treatment with donor eggs can be found here
If a clinic has a higher-than-average number of cycles using PGT-A or donor eggs, this will be stated below.
Births per embryo transferred – average of all types of treatment
01/01/2022 to 31/12/2022
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 (please note this relates to data from 2019 – this will be updated in late 2025)
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.
Until the detailed statistics are updated in late 2025, we also advise patients to speak to their clinics for more information.
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
01/01/2022 to 31/12/2022
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 (please note this relates to data from 2019 – this will be updated in late 2025)
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.
Until the detailed statistics are updated in late 2025, we also advise patients to speak to their clinics for more information.
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 | Immediately available |
Black | 1 - 6 months |
Asian | 1 - 6 months |
Mixed | 1 - 6 months |
Other ethnic groups | 1 - 6 months |
Ethnicity | Waiting times |
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White | Immediately available |
Black | 1 - 6 months |
Asian | No data available |
Mixed | Immediately available |
Other ethnic groups | 1 - 6 months |
Ethnicity | Waiting times |
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White | 1 - 6 months |
Black | 1 - 6 months |
Asian | More than 6 months |
Mixed | No data available |
Other ethnic groups | 1 - 6 months |
Eligibility
- Patients from abroad Description Information: Treats patients from outside the UK.
- Treats private patients Description Information: Treats patients who are self-funded.
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.
- 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.
Screening services
- PGT-M
- PGT-A
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
Address
- The Lister Hospital Chelsea Bridge Road
- London
- SW1W 8RH
Contact
P: 020 7730 5932
P (other): 020 7881 4087
F: 02072599039
Licence holder
Person responsible
Opening hours
Monday to Friday: 08:30 - 17:00
Saturday: 08:30 - 16:00
Sunday: 08:30 - 14:00
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