PRICE SCHEDULE FOR SELF-FUNDED PATIENTS AT THE PENINSULAR CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE: From October 2009

 

Most types of  treatment are available free of charge to NHS patients  provided couples fall within eligibility criteria set by NHS funding organisations. Prices on this website are indicative only and subject to change. Couples should check that they have the latest fee schedule from the clinic

 

CONSULTATIONS AND INVESTIGATIONS

 

 

INITIAL CONSULTATION

£160

FOLLOW-UP CONSULTATIONS

£95

 

 

IVF PLANNING APPOINTMENT (includes introductory counselling appointment at no extra cost if taken up)

£130

DONOR INSEMINATION PLANNING APPOINTMENT (includes introductory counselling appointment)

£130

ADDITIONAL COUNSELLING APPOINTMENT (optional, available on request)

£95

IUI PLANNING APPOINTMENT with nurse/co-ordinator

£95

 

 

ULTRASOUND SCAN

£130

ULTRASOUND SCAN AND POSTCOITAL TEST

£190

SEMEN ANALYSIS

£85

TRIAL SEMEN PREPARATION FOR ASSISTED CONCEPTION

£165

 

 

BLOOD TESTS AS REQUIRED AND IF NOT PERFORMED BY GP

Separate schedule

 

 

LAPAROSCOPY

p.o.a.

HYSTEROSCOPY

p.o.a.

TUBAL SURGERY

p.o.a.

 

 

TREATMENTS

 

 

Intrauterine insemination cycle (‘IUI’, includes scans and insemination procedure but excluding drug cost (typically £150-£250)

£700

 

 

Superovulation  treatment cycle including scans but excluding drug costs (typically £150-£250)

£400

 

 

IN-VITRO FERTILISATION (IVF) TREATMENT CYCLE (includes scans, scheduling appointments and a follow-up appointment but excludes drug costs (usually £500-£1000) or HFEA fee (£105)

£2650

IVF HFEA FEE (Paid by the clinic to the HFEA every time an IVF treatment cycle is started or whenever embryo are thawed for treatment and regardless of whether treatment actually continues to completion)

£105

(TOTAL)

(£2755)

IVF ‘EXTRAS’ AS REQUIRED:

 

INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION (ICSI)

£665

EMBRYO FREEZING AND STORAGE FOR ONE YEAR (per freezing episode and batch of up to 12 embryo straws)

£370

EMBRYO STORAGE FOR SUBSEQUENT YEARS (per batch stored)

£130/year

SURGICAL SPERM RECOVERY (TESA)

£705

SUPPLEMENT FOR EGG RECOVERY UNDER GENERAL ANAESTHESIA (if requested)

£420

BLASTOCYST CULTURE

No additional charge

LASER ASSISTED HATCHING

£150

 

 

FROZEN EMBRYO TRANSFER CYCLE (‘FET’, includes scheduling, the HFEA fee and scans but excludes drug costs – typically approx. £150-£250)

£750

 

 

IVF EGG DONATION CYCLE AS RECIPIENT (includes scans, scheduling appointments and a follow-up appointment but excludes drug costs (usually approx. £250) or HFEA fee (£105)

£4725

IVF EGG DONATION CYCLE AS EGG-SHARING DONOR (includes scans, scheduling appointments, follow-up appointment and drugs. A refundable deposit of £600 is payable if the donor couple wish to reserve the option to continue with treatment if fewer than six eggs are obtained at egg collection)

HFEA  fee only (£105)

 

 

IUI TREATMENT CONVERTED TO IVF CYCLE (only if available)

£1655

 

 

SPERM BANKING (freezing and storage for up to one year, per banking episode and batch of up to 12 ampoules or straws)

£370

SEMEN STORAGE  (per batch of up to 12 ampoules or straws)

£130

 

 

SPERM DONATION: Supplies of donor sperm are unpredictable. The clinic seeks to obtain donor sperm from supplying centres, which may include overseas clinics. When available, charges are levied according to the costs of buying, shipping and storing samples. Currently a charge of approx. £2,400 is payable to obtain, transport and store sufficient sperm for a course of up to six treatments. The individual treatment cycle costs for which the sperm will be used e.g. for IUI or IVF and any associated HFEA fees (£52 or £105 depending upon the type of treatment) are also applicable.  

 

 

 

EGG BANKING (includes ultrasound monitoring appointments, egg collection, freezing and storage for up to one year. Does not include initial consultation and investigation costs, drugs, storage costs after one year or subsequent treatment using the stored eggs)

£2850

 

£130/year

EGG STORAGE (per batch stored)

 

 

 

EGG BANKING AS AN EGG-SHARING DONOR (up to four eggs to be banked for own use per donation treatment, surplus eggs donated to treat another couple or couples, includes storage for up to 5 years but excludes initial consultation/investigation costs, acceptance criteria as per IVF EGG DONATION CYCLE AS DONOR)

£250

 

 

REFUNDS:

A deposit of £550 is payable when a couple reserves an IVF treatment slot. This may not be refunded if the couple withdraw before treatment starts for non-medical reasons and is also payable if treatment has started but is abandoned before egg collection. If treatment proceeds to egg collection but there are no embryos suitable for transfer a refund of £350 will be made. If it is not possible to undertake fresh embryo transfer after egg collection and embryo culture for medical reasons e.g. risk of ovarian hyperstimulation, the clinic may undertake to freeze and store embryos for up to one year and arrange a frozen embryo transfer cycle at no additional cost other than the drug costs for a FET cycle as above.

In the event that no embryos survive thawing for a frozen embryo transfer (FET) cycle a refund of £290 from the cost of the treatment cycle will be made.

 

COSTED TREATMENT PLANS:

The total costs for couples seeking or undergoing treatment are usually made up from ‘one-off’ costs, such as initial consultations and investigations, drug costs, the treatment cycle costs, the HFEA fee (where applicable), and the costs of supplementary procedures e.g. ICSI or embryo freezing. Some of these, such as the drugs costs or the HFEA fee, may change due to circumstances beyond the clinic’s control, and sometimes couples may require additional drugs, investigations or procedures beyond those that were planned at the outset of treatment. In some cases investigations may also have been previously performed e.g. by the general practitioner. As a general indication of how to calculate approximate likely costs, however, some ‘Costed Treatment Plan’ examples have been presented below (click on the links): 

 

EXAMPLE 1: Appointments and work-up for a couple undergoing a first IVF cycle without requiring supplementary treatments and a low dose of drugs but no previous investigations available

 

EXAMPLE 2: A second IVF treatment cycle for a couple requiring ICSI and embryo freezing and storage for 1 year

 

EXAMPLE 3: Appointments and work-up for a couple seeking and then undergoing a first egg-sharing IVF treatment cycle with ICSI and surgical sperm recovery

 

EXAMPLE 4: Frozen embryo transfer cycle for a couple who have frozen and stored embryos locally