About The London Women's Clinic
The London Women's Clinic provides IVF and fertility treatments to assist couples and individuals overcome their difficulties in conception and pregnancy. With over 20 years’ experience in the treatment of fertility problems, our team delivers a full range of diagnostic and treatment programmes for fertility disorders. We are committed to offering all our patients the best chance of achieving pregnancy and childbirth. Our clinics based in London, the North of England and Wales operate one of the most successful IVF programmes in the world, as our success rates demonstrate.
OUR CLINICS
London
Established 1985 in Harley Street, The London Women's Clinic pioneered many of the fertility treatments now considered routine to assisted conception.
At the heart of London's well-known medical district, our Georgian home has been completely refurbished to the highest standards to provide a comfortable, friendly and supportive environment for our patients.
State-of-the-art medical facilities, including on-site laboratories and theatres and a team of consultants and nursing staff with over 20 years’ experience, of diagnores. We able to offer a comprehensive range of IVF and other fertility treatments, as well as other specialist gynaecological services.
Darlington (North East England)
Our Darlington Clinic is situated in the highly impressive Woodlands Hospital close to the town centre. We offer a wide range of IVF and fertility treatments and specialist gynaecological services in facilities that are among the best in the region. We pride ourselves on our ability to offer all our patients the very best care.
Our highly experienced team of consultants and nursing staff delivers the highest possible standard of assisted childbirth. The Clinic itself is equipped with the most up-to-date facilities and offers patients excellent treatment in a relaxed, caring and supportive environment.
Cardiff (Wales)
Our purpose-built clinic at Cardiff allows us to deliver a wide range of IVF and fertility treatments and specialist gynaecological services. Our team of consultants and nursing staff have over 20 years experience delivering the highest possible standard of patient care for assisted child birth.
The clinic houses four large and comfortable consulting rooms, where we provide a comprehensive range of infertility treatments in a relaxed, caring and supportive environment.
Swansea (Wales)
Our Swansea Clinic offers a comprehensive range of IVF and fertility services. Run by a team of consultants and nursing staff with many years’ experience, the Clinic delivers the highest possible standards of patient care for assisted conception and childbirth.
The purpose built consulting rooms at the Clinic allow us to provide infertility treatments in a relaxed, caring and supportive environment where patients have the best possible chance of achieving pregnancy.
TREATMENT OPTIONS AT THE LONDON WOMEN’S CLINIC
IUI, IVF & ICSI
Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) combined with superovulation using washed sperm is often effective in the case of mild abnormalities in sperm parameters.
In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) requires fewer motile sperm because natural transport barriers are bypassed, and sperm come in contact with multiple oocytes from superovulation.
Intacytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) has revolutionized the treatment of severe male factor infertility problems, especially when the sperm is surgically retrieved. One single sperm is injected into each egg, with a fertilisation rate of around 70%.
THREE CYCLE IVF PACKAGE
Past results demonstrate that success rates improve dramatically when IVF treatment is adopted as a course of treatment rather than a one-off attempt. The London Women's Clinic appreciate that this maybe cost prohibitive for some and is therefore currently offering a '3-Cycle Package', which offers three treatments for the price of two. The response to this package has been tremendous and the success rates good. We have found that patients are more relaxed from the outset if they know that they have multiple chances for a pregnancy. Patients booking this form of treatment will be treated for up to three cycles within a period of one year.
EGG SHARING & EGG DONATION
The London Women’s Clinic championed the practice of egg sharing in the UK, and our egg donation programme provides hope to many women, who previously believed they could not have children. The London Women’s Clinic egg-sharing programme provides IVF treatment at a vastly reduced cost to women who are willing and able to share some of their eggs. Donors do not pay anything for the IVF part of their treatment and only contribute to the cost of the initial consultation, blood tests and any additional procedures that may be required. We endeavour to match the physical characteristics of donor and recipient. Donors should be under the age of 36 at the time of treatment, preferably with confirmed fertility and no history of genetic disorders. All donors are thoroughly screened for transmissible diseases. We synchronize the recipient's cycle with that of the donor. The donor undergoes a similar stimulation protocol as discussed in the IVF cycle.
SPERM DONATION
The London Women's clinic caters to Lesbian couples who are looking to have a baby.
With more than 10,000 vials of donor sperm held in deep-freeze storage, The London Women’s Clinic is now Britain’s largest sperm bank. We have no waiting list for donor sperm. Donors come from a wide range of ethnic, educational and social backgrounds and all have been carefully screened for infections that could otherwise be passed on to you or your unborn child. The London Women’s Clinic (LWC) is often described as the fertility clinic of choice for single women and same sex couples. At the LWC we have been treating lesbian couples and single women wanting to start a family for more than 10 years, and indeed we were one of the very first clinics in the UK to do so. In this time we have helped more than 2000 single women and lesbian couples in their desire to have healthy babies. Our caring and supportive medical staff are committed to offering all our patients the best chance of achieving pregnancy and childbirth.
OUR LATEST SUCCESS RATES
% Success rates per IVF/ICSI embryo transfer cycle for 2008
AGE SUCCESS RATES
Under 35 55%
35 – 37 36%
38 – 39 29%
40 – 42 22%
Egg Share patients
Egg share donors 46%
Egg share recipients 42%
Three Cycle IVF Package (upper age 39-40):
Pregnancy/Birth rate per completed cycle for 2005-2008 66.9%
SUCCESS RATES FOR INTRA UTERINE INSEMINATION FOR THE PERIOD 2004-2008 3143 Consecutive treatment cycles from 1339 patient.
Age Live birth / ongoing pregnancy rate (%)
≤ 35 26 %
36-40 14.4 %
≥ 41 5.5 %
TREATMENTS AVAILABLE AT THE LONDON WOMEN’S CLINIC
* Artificial Insemination
* Assisted Hatching
* Blastocyst Embryo Transfer
* Donor Insemination (DI)
* Egg Donation
* Egg Freezing
* Egg Sharing
* Embyro Freezing
* Frozen Embryo Replacement (FER)
* Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI)
* Intra-uterine Insemination (IUI)
* Ovulation Induction
* Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) - coming soon
* Sperm Donation
* Surgical Sperm Retrieval
* Surrogacy
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If you ask a Londoner where the centre of London is, you are likely to get a wry smile. This is because historically London was two cities, a commercial city, and a separate government capital, Like New York and Washington, or Sydney and Canberra.
The commercial capital was the City of London. This had the dense population, and all the other pre-requisites of a medieval city: walls, a castle (the Tower of London), a cathedral (St. Pauls), a semi-independent City government, a port and a bridge across which all trade was routed so the Londoners could make money (London Bridge).
About an hour upstream (on foot or by boat) round a bend in the river was the government capital (Westminster). This had a church for crowning the monarch (Westminster Abbey) and palaces. As each palace was replaced by a better one, the previous one was used for government, first the Palace of Westminster (better known as the Houses of Parliament), then Whitehall, then Buckingham Palace. The two were linked by a road called the "Strand", old English for riverbank.
London grew, west and east. The land to the west of the City (part of the parish of Westminster) was prime farming land (Covent Garden etc.), and made good building land. The land to the east was flat, marshy and cheap, good for cheap housing and industry, and later for docks. Also the wind blows 3 days out of 4 from west to east, and the Thames (into which the sewage went) flows from west to east. So the West End was up-wind and up-market, the East End where people worked for a living. You now have a two-centre city, with the area in between known confusingly as the "West End". Except now the docks have closed, and been replaced by developments like Canary Wharf, making parts of the East End as expensive and full of offices as the City.
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