St Mary's Hospital

St Mary's Hospital sits in the average HFEA tier overall, with a 31% birth rate against a 29% national average. Its age-band figures are strong across the board: under-35 patients are recorded at 57% against a national 38%, and even its weaker band, 35-37, is still at 39% against a national 32%. With 3,189 cycles, this is a medium-volume clinic, which generally means these figures are less likely to swing sharply year to year than at a smaller centre — though it's still worth asking how current the picture is.

The headline number is a live-birth rate per embryo transferred, based on HFEA-verified regulated data for 2016 to 2018. It's a population-level figure, describing outcomes across the patients treated in that window rather than predicting any one person's result. Two things worth checking before comparing clinics: whether a quoted rate is per embryo transferred or per cycle started, since these are calculated differently, and which years the data spans, as more recent figures may differ.

Two things worth raising directly with the team: - What's included in the quoted price, and what add-on costs are typical, since the headline figure rarely covers medication, freezing or storage? - What were your live-birth rates for my specific age group in the latest HFEA data, rather than the clinic-wide average? A good consultant should be glad to walk you through both in plain terms.