Share your clinic's experience

Since January 2009 all UK fertility clinics that carry out IVF, ICSI or GIFT needed to have a strategy in place setting out how they will reduce their multiple births rate to 24% or under. 

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Some clinics may already have had a policy for single embryo transfer in place. For other clinics this will have been a much bigger challenge.
 
Read our clinic stories and find:

• Ideas for how to develop multiple births strategies
• What patient and embryo selection criteria have worked for other clinics
• Ways to review and improve your strategy
• Tips on how to encourage patient uptake of single embryo transfer

Clinic A's story

Clinic A analysed their own data and used the ACE/BFS guidelines to identify which patients should be offered elective single embryo transfer (eSET). Patients who met the criteria were strongly and consistently encouraged by staff to consider eSET at all points along the patient pathway.  Clinic A also decided to change their embryo transfer policy to blastocyst transfer. 

Read about what they did >>

Clinic B's story

"Over the last 18 months our policy has had to be adapted to ensure the correct patients are selected for eSET. Pregnancy rates have not been compromised. The focus for this year will be to reduce double blastocyst transfers and to capitalise on the success achieved with frozen blastocyst stage transfers to improve cumulative pregnancy rates..."

Read about what they did >>