Training workshops

Elective single embryo transfer: the team approach to successful strategies to reduce multiple births

Regional workshops were held in various venues in the UK focusing on the importance of accelerating the reduction in multiple births, to share knowledge and encourage open discussion in 2008.

The workshops were aimed at all staff in fertility centres and all those who commission fertility services.

Workshop presentations

Maximising successful health outcomes in ART (PDF 1.7Mb)
Mark Hamilton, British Fertility Society

Outcomes for children after IVF: What are the facts? (PDF 171Kb)
Alun Elias-Jones, Consultant Community Paediatrician

Midland Fertility Services (PDF 350Kb)
Heidi Birch, Director of Nursing Services, Midland Fertility Services, Aldridge, UK

Does laboratory practice need to change? (PDF 997Kb)
Sue Avery, Assisted Conception Unit, Birmingham Women’s Hospital

Elective single embryo, what are the local issues in this area? (PDF 480 Kb)
           Yacoub Khalaf, Assisted Conception Unit, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital

Reducing Multiple Births - The role of the Commissioner (PDF 200Kb)
Claire O'Donnell and Sally Nelson, Public Health Advisors to NHS
           Specialised Services Commissioning Teams

One at a time - The regulator's plans (PDF 28Kb)
Chris O'Toole, Jessica Watkin, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority