Trends in fertility treatments and outcomes in 2014

The HFEA is the independent regulator of fertility treatment in the UK. Part of our role is to collect data from every licensed fertility clinic about the 60,000 treatment cycles they perform each year. Fertility Trends and Figures is an annual report in which we present information about the patients who are treated, the different treatments they have and how many of them lead to a pregnancy and birth. This year’s report contains pregnancy information about treatment cycles carried out in 2014 and birth information for treatment cycles carried out in 2013. We show that the overall pregnancy and live birth rates have increased at a time of notable changes to clinical practice. More women than ever are opting to have only one embryo transferred in their treatment to reduce their risk of a multiple pregnancy1 and an increasing number of those transfers are of blastocyst stage embryos. We have also seen the overall multiple pregnancy and multiple birth rates continue to fall.