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An inclusive and successful partner for your fertility journey
- Lister Fertility Clinic is the UK’s largest private IVF unit
- 10+ dedicated fertility consultants
- 23,000+ babies born with us
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OUR FERTILITY SUCCESS RATES AT HCA UK
Why choose us?
The Lister Fertility Clinic has a proud ethos of not selecting which patients we treat. We believe you should be allowed to pursue fertility treatment if there’s any chance of success. 40% of our IVF cycles between 2014-2019 were with patients who’d had multiple previous cycles or who met the Bologna criteria for ‘poor responders’. At the Lister, the average age of patients undergoing an IVF cycle is 37.5 with just 34% under 37, compared to an age of 35.5 across the UK with 65% under 37 (Fertility Trends 2017: HFEA).
We’re delighted at our continued success, which has seen us pass the 23,000 mark in 2025 for babies born from treatments under our dedicated team. Why not use our fertility calculator to analyse our results in more detail and get a personalised view? It’s based on real-world data carefully collected at the Lister Fertility Clinic over a 5-year period.
23,000+babies born with us
10+dedicated fertility consultants
35+years since we opened our doors
All in one place
Our main clinic is linked to the HCA UK hospital network, with all tests and procedures carried out onsite
State-of-the-art in-house labs
All necessary tests are expertly processed in our outstanding in-house labs
Exceptional, personalised care
Be looked after in one of the UK’s leading private fertility centres, offering personalised care and a wealth of fertility specialists
Our IVF/ICSI birth rates
To give you a useful overview, we calculate the overall average number of successful births we achieve per embryo transferred for all treatments we carry out across our clinics. That includes everything from fresh cycles to frozen transfers, treatments using donor eggs and treatment using PGT-A. It also includes the subset of fresh stimulated embryos involving the patient’s own eggs.
This measure doesn’t incorporate outcomes for procedures that don’t reach that first embryo transfer stage.
With HCA UK, safety always comes first, so we always communicate this figure as the number of births per embryo transferred. Reporting it this way promotes embryo transfer practices that minimise the chances of twins, which carry additional health risks for the babies and their mother.
Please note that all the statistics shared below relate to treatments carried out from January to December 2022. Lister Fertility Clinic at The Portland only opened in May 2022, which is reflected in these figures.
Births per embryo transferred
An average for all types of treatment
THE LISTER
- Women we treated who were under 38 years old had a 35% success rate, based on a total of 1074 embryo transfers.
- Women of 38 years old and above had a 16% success rate, based on a total of 980 embryo transfers.
- That gave us an average 26% success rate, based on a grand total of 2054 embryo transfers.
- Women we treated who were under 38 years old had a 39% success rate, based on a total of 41 embryo transfers.
- Women of 38 years old and above had a 20% success rate, based on 30 embryo transfers.
- That gave us an average 31% success rate, based on a grand total of 71 embryo transfers.
- Women treated who were under 38 years old had a 34% success rate.
- Women of 38 years old and above had a 17% success rate.
- That was an average 28% national success rate.
Births per embryo transferred
Fresh stimulated transfers using own eggs
THE LISTER
- Women we treated who were under 38 years old had a 29% success rate, based on a total of 366 embryo transfers.
- Women of 38 years old and above had a 10% success rate, based on a total of 581 embryo transfers.
- That gave us an average 18% success rate, based on grand total of 947 embryo transfers.
- We treated fewer than 10 women under 38 so we’re not quoting our figures to protect their personal privacy and avoid the risk of identifying them.
- Women we treated of 38 years old and above had a 5% success rate, based on a total of 21 embryo transfers.
- We had an average 7% success rate across ages groups, based on grand total of 30 embryo transfers.
- Women treated who were under 38 years old had a 32% success rate.
- Women of 38 years old and above had 12% success rate.
- That was an average 24% national success rate.
Multiple birth rates
For some people, being told that you’re having twins may feel like a wonderful thing. While some multiple pregnancies are perfectly safe, they do carry more risks for both mother and babies. That’s why HFEA has set a target for all clinics to have a multiple birth rate of 10% or less. At both the Lister Fertility Clinic and The Portland Hospital we are well within those targets.
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THE LISTER
- 4% of women we treated who were under 38 years old had a multiple birth, based on a total of 379 births.
- 2% of women we treated of 38 years old and over had a multiple birth, based on a total of 161 births.
- That gave us an average of 3% of women having a multiple birth, based on a grand total of 540 births.
- 6% of women we treated under 38 has a multiple birth, based on a total of 16 births.
- Fewer than 10 women aged 38 and over had a multiple birth so we’re not quoting our figures to protect their personal privacy and avoid the risk of identifying them.
- An average of 5% of women across age groups had a multiple birth.
- 4% of women who had treatment under 38 had a multiple birth.
- 5% of women who had treatment of 38 years old and over had a multiple birth.
- That’s an average of 4% of women nationally having a multiple birth.
Our fertility success rate FAQ
The Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority (HFEA) now recommends that clinic success rates are predominantly presented as livebirth per embryo transferred (PET). This promotes embryo transfer practices that minimise the chance of twins, which carry health risks for both the babies and their mother. That makes it a fairer assessment of outcomes.
Unfortunately, the unnecessary transfer of multiple embryos still occurs in some places, even though it’s against national guidelines and carries risks. This approach can be used to artificially inflate success rates.
Unfortunately, the unnecessary transfer of multiple embryos still occurs in some places, even though it’s against national guidelines and carries risks. This approach can be used to artificially inflate success rates.
We have two main clinics within separate hospital settings, Lister Fertility Clinic and Lister Fertility Clinic at The Portland Hospital. Each of these clinics holds its own HFEA licence because they’re located on different premises and operate as standalone treatment clinics and satellites. By having two HFEA licences, we can ensure that each site individually complies with the HFEA’s rigorous standards for fertility treatment and patient safety.
The cost of your treatment will depend on the type of testing you opt for. Please take a look at our latest price list and if you have any questions, feel free to get in touch. We’ll do everything we can to help.
Of course, success rates are important, but they’re just one of a range of factors that you should consider when comparing fertility centres and choosing where to seek treatment. These include the ethos of the clinic, the expertise of the teams, your chemistry with a particular consultant and a clinic’s convenience and proximity to your home. Information on success rates can also be a useful decision tool, but it should always be considered alongside these other factors.
HFEA has a great resource you can use to help you help you look at the success rate data for all the fertility clinics across the UK, so you can consider that alongside other important factors to help you select the best clinic for you. You can access it here.
Because personal chemistry matters, at HCA UK we have a choice of 10 female and male fertility specialists working at the Lister Fertility Clinic and across our satellite branches.
HFEA has a great resource you can use to help you help you look at the success rate data for all the fertility clinics across the UK, so you can consider that alongside other important factors to help you select the best clinic for you. You can access it here.
Because personal chemistry matters, at HCA UK we have a choice of 10 female and male fertility specialists working at the Lister Fertility Clinic and across our satellite branches.
These statistics reflect all treatments that took place in 2022. New data sets are coming in late 2025 and as soon as we have them, we’ll update this page. These will give us full data on treatments, pregnancies and births in the period 2022-2024.
A fertility add-on is an optional extra, such as a reproductive immunology treatment, that you may be offered on top of your normal fertility treatment, often at an additional cost. They typically use emerging techniques, that may have shown some promising results in initial studies but haven’t necessarily been proven to improve pregnancy or birth rates. We offer a number of these at HCA UK.
HFEA is the independent regulator of fertility treatment and research for the UK. It uses a rating system to assess add-on treatments. To see HFEA’s ratings and guidance for add-on treatments, including reproductive immunology, please click here.
Our patients’ stories
How Lister Fertility Clinic helped two fathers-to-be
Paul is sitting in his home in Belfast, with his husband Neil and their beautiful three-month-old son Felix, talking about their journey to fatherhood – a journey that the Lister Fertility Clinic, part of HCA Healthcare UK, accompanied them on.
Clare’s fertility treatment
Clare and her husband Derek thought they might never have children, until joining the egg-sharing programme at the Lister Fertility Clinic.
Alice and Aaron's fertility treatment
After being told they’d never have children, Alice and Aaron turned to the Lister Fertility Clinic. They now have a beautiful two-year-old daughter.
Our locations
A network of fertility care
Lister Fertility Clinic
Chelsea Bridge Road SW1W 8RH London
Lister Fertility Clinic at The Portland Hospital
First Floor 215 Great Portland Street W1W 5PN London
Lister Fertility Clinic at The Beaconsfield Clinic
Little Hall Barn Windsor End, Beaconsfield HP9 2JW Buckinghamshire
Lister Fertility Clinic at The Shard
The Shard Outpatients St Thomas Street SE1 9BS London
Lister Fertility Clinic at Canary Wharf Outpatients
40 Bank Street Canary Wharf E14 5NR London
“My husband and I were delighted that our first round of ICSI IVF was successful, and we now have a 3-week-old baby girl after 5 years of trying to conceive. She was our only embryo available for transfer (none left to freeze). Thank you so much all at Lister. We are now complete.”
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