Comparing IVF clinics

No better chance, no greater care

How do you choose a fertility clinic? What factors are important? We've put together a little list of things we think set Sydney IVF apart.

Success rates

It's very hard for us to compare our success rates with other clinics because there is no central, regulated way of reporting that would allow a direct comparison. Recently, however, we took a "snapshot" of all the new patients that came to us over a two year period and we looked at how their treatment turned out. You can see the full results on our Success Rates page.

In those two years, 15% of our new patients came to us after having unsuccessful treatment at another clinic. Of those, 66% aged under 36 had a baby after treatment with us.

Fees

When you compare Sydney IVF's fees with other private clinics, a cycle with us may cost you a few hundred dollars more out of pocket - this is because Sydney IVF refuses to compromise when it comes to support, services or science.

That said, our high success rates mean that it may take fewer treatment cycles with us to complete your family – 95% of women who have a baby with us do so in 1-3 cycles.

Sydney IVF also has a unique No Upfront Fees policy that means you pay nothing for your treatment until after your embryo transfer. Then we process your claims for you to make sure the money is back in your account within days instead of weeks or months.

Support

Our patients are each assigned a small, dedicated team of Nurse Coordinators and Patient Relationship Coordinators.  Your Nurse Coordinator will guide you through all the clinical aspects of your treatment. The Patient Relationship Coordinator will help you with everything else – things like Medicare claims, making appointments, even where to park.

You will have a number you can call 24 hours a day, seven days a week and speak to someone who knows about your case.

Services

Sydney IVF day surgeries are open seven days a week, so your eggs are collected at the precise moment they are ready. In most cases, you will have your own doctor performing the egg collection procedure.

Sydney IVF is the only IVF clinic in Australia with full in-house genetic testing. Our genetics division offers pre-conception screening for common disorders such as cystic fibrosis, prenatal screening for Down syndrome, and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis for embryos. Your genetic material does not leave our care. Other clinics send genetic material to external labs, sometimes even outside Australia.

Science

Sydney IVF is the world leader in certain principal areas of research into embryo development and IVF medicine.

We hold eight of the nine Embryo Research Licences issued by Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council.

These licenses enable us to maintain a major world lead in:

ADVANCED EMBRYO CULTURE

The Sydney IVF culture medium suite is exported to more than 40 countries. Sydney IVF patients benefit from tested and proven improvements about two years ahead of world-wide release. Our experience means that culture of embryos for 5 to 6 days to blastocysts is What We Do - not a sometimes-performed add-on for which there's an extra fee.

BLASTOCYST-BASED GENETIC TESTING OF EMBRYOS, or "PGD"

Sydney IVF was the first clinic anywhere to advance the genetic testing of embryos away from Day 3 (when embryos are still very vulnerable) to Day 5 to 6 (when they are blastocysts). This produces almost a doubling of the chance of success (i.e. a normal birth). We have developed unique molecular-based test for miscarriage prevention and chromosome counting, in addition to testing for serious family-based genetic diseases such as Huntington's disease, cystic fibrosis, Fragile X, muscular dystrophy, and more than 200 others.

EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS

We are the only clinic licensed to developed embryonic stem cells in Australia. As part of blastocyst-based platform, we provide small pharmaceutical companies and academic research labs with cells from embryos shown to carry serious genetic disease in our PGD program and donated for research. This is enabling research labs in Australia and overseas to pioneer new treatments for children and adults suffering from similar mutations.