{"id":1306,"date":"2021-08-02T19:52:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T18:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pamap.accessfertility.com\/ie\/2021\/08\/02\/ivf-success-and-the-chances-of-ivf-working\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T15:07:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:07:05","slug":"ivf-success-rates-chances-ivf-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.accessfertility.com\/ie\/ivf-success-rates-chances-ivf-working\/","title":{"rendered":"IVF Success Rates: What Are Your Chances of IVF Working?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For anyone interested in fertility, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is the leading source of information in the UK. Each year, this independent regulator shares a report<\/a> on IVF success rate statistics in the UK. The findings give an overview of the IVF success rates across the country. In order to help patients understand the report, we asked our fertility nurse Kelly to explain and consider the chances of IVF working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What are the chances of IVF working, looking at these figures?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Crucially, as with all statistics, we must understand what we\u2019re looking at. The HFEA IVF statistics are national and only break down the figures by age, which makes them very broad. For example, the people included in the report could have any number of fertility issues we don\u2019t know about. As I always say to patients – don\u2019t use these IVF success rates as a Bible. However, they can give us a very rough guideline. The report shares that live birth rates are around 32% per embryo transfer among under 35s, compared to just 5% among patients aged 43+ using their own eggs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Live birth rate per embryo transfer is probably one of the most useful statistics to look at. Conversely, be careful when comparing clinic IVF statistics. What one reports as its IVF success rate may be considering live birth rate per embryo transfer, while another is per cycle. Those figures are quite different, so make sure you\u2019re comparing apples with apples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n