Care Fertility Cheshire
Care Fertility Cheshire (previously known as IVF-Life United Kingdom) has been licensed by us since 2014. 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: 19 April 2023
Licensed until: 15 October 2024
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Inspection report and minutes- Interim
19 July 2022PDF | 459 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Interim
16 September 2021PDF | 510 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
24 January 2020PDF | 506 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Additional announced
31 July 2019PDF | 352 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Variation of PR/LH
03 December 2018PDF | 106 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Progress report
03 October 2018PDF | 79 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
04 July 2023PDF | 124 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation to change centre name
24 April 2023PDF | 148 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
12 April 2023PDF | 196 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
30 January 2023PDF | 203 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation to change centre name
28 March 2022PDF | 235 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
16 September 2021PDF | 138 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
06 April 2021PDF | 156 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Other
23 March 2021PDF | 247 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Representations
15 October 2020PDF | 432 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Special Direction
30 September 2020PDF | 278 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Special Direction
03 March 2020PDF | 271 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Special Direction for import
25 April 2019PDF | 190 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Progress report
31 July 2018PDF | 88 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Progress report
15 May 2018PDF | 60 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Interim
29 March 2018PDF | 70 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Special Direction
29 March 2018PDF | 69 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Interim
08 February 2018PDF | 453 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
07 March 2017PDF | 206 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Renewal
25 January 2016PDF | 262 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
25 January 2016PDF | 52 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Variation to change centre name
30 January 2015PDF | 30 Kb
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Licence Committee minutes- Variation of PR/LH
21 July 2014PDF | 49 Kb
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Inspection report and minutes- Initial
20 March 2014PDF | 318 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
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.
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White | No data available |
Black | No data available |
Asian | No data available |
Mixed | No data available |
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White | No data available |
Black | No data available |
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White | No data available |
Black | No data available |
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Mixed | No data available |
Other ethnic groups | No data available |
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.
- 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.
- In vitro maturation
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-A
Counselling and support
- Compulsory counselling for donors
- 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
- 5400 Daresbury Park
- Daresbury
- Cheshire
- WA4 4GE
Opening hours
Monday to Friday: 08:00 - 16:00
Saturday: contact the clinic
Sunday: contact the clinic
Satellite clinics
Greater Lancashire Fertility Centre