London Women's Clinic, Darlington
London Women's Clinic, Darlington has been licensed by us since 1992. It is a small-sized 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: 14 September 2022
Licensed until: 13 November 2027
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
14 November 2023PDF | 208 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Progress report
21 September 2023PDF | 506 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
16 February 2023PDF | 689 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Variation to add treatments
03 March 2020PDF | 273 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
23 March 2021PDF | 247 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Special Direction for import
16 November 2020PDF | 190 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Special Direction for import
16 November 2020PDF | 169 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
05 February 2019PDF | 266 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Renewal
08 February 2018PDF | 100 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
05 September 2017PDF | 219 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Interim
22 August 2017PDF | 908 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Interim
23 May 2017PDF | 301 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Progress report
30 March 2017PDF | 77 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Additional announced
25 July 2016PDF | 829 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Interim
30 March 2016PDF | 320 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Renewal
25 March 2015PDF | 336 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
01 March 2013PDF | 790 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
14 January 2011PDF | 653 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes
11 March 2010PDF | 614 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
24 February 2010PDF | 488 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes
20 April 2009PDF | 571 Kb
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Inspection report
28 January 2008PDF | 117 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes
28 January 2008PDF | 21 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes
01 February 2006PDF | 21 Kb
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Inspection report- Interim
17 November 2005PDF | 99 Kb
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Inspection report
01 January 2005PDF | 100 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes
01 January 2005PDF | 36 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
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 | Immediately available |
Black | Immediately available |
Asian | Immediately available |
Mixed | Immediately available |
Other ethnic groups | Immediately available |
Ethnicity | Waiting times |
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White | Immediately available |
Black | Immediately available |
Asian | Immediately available |
Mixed | Immediately available |
Other ethnic groups | Immediately 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 private patients Description Information: Treats patients who are self-funded.
- Upper age limit of patients treated
Treatments
Donor services
- Known donor programme
- Recruits egg donors Description Information: This clinic recruits UK egg donors, rather than importing eggs 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
- Named nurse system
- One physician throughout treatment
Facilities
- Wheelchair access
- Parking
Address
- Woodlands Hospital
- Morton Park
- Darlington
- Durham
- DL1 4PL
Contact
P: 01325 371 070
F: 01325 371 071
E: darlington@londonwomensclinic.com
W: www.londonwomensclinic.com/darlington
Licence holder
Dr Kamal Ahuja
Person responsible
Opening hours
Monday to Friday: 08:00 - 17:00
Saturday: contact the clinic
Sunday: contact the clinic
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