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We give licences to carry out fertility treatment or human embryo research. The most recent decisions about clinics and embryo research projects are below including whether a licence has been renewed or if any regulatory action has been taken.

Imported gametes or embryos for a patient’s treatment must meet UK safety and quality standards around the testing, transportation and procurement.

In this blog, Isabel, a donor-embryo-conceived person, shares her experience of accessing support and offers advice for donor-conceived people.

Counselling and support can be helpful for people thinking of accessing information about their donor, donor-conceived sibling(s) or individuals born from their donation.

In this blog, Sarah, shares her story of having 2 children through donation, how she told them they were donor conceived and accessing support.

We hold information on all fertility treatments involving a donor since 1st August 1991. Learn about what you can find out about donors and genetic siblings.

The changes the HFEA would like to see include: Reduce the time taken from advice in primary care to specialist fertility treatment, to maximise success; Action to reduce inequalities in access to and outcomes of fertility treatment; Ensure the HFEA has up to date powers to enable patients to be protected in a competitive fertility market.

The independent expert panel convened by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to undertake a review of mitochondrial donation techniques, has today recommended that those techniques be approved for “cautious” use in “specific circumstances”.

Access to identifying information about donors for eligible donor-conceived people: FAQs for donors, donor-conceived people and their parents.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has today approved the use of mitochondrial donation in certain, specific cases.