Patients should not be charged extra to take part in research, including clinical trials.įor specific patient groups there may be reasons for the use of a treatment add-on other than improving your chances of having a baby.
You can read more about RCTs further down this page.Īn agreement between the HFEA and 10 other professional and patient bodies ( the January 2019 consensus statement - PDF) stated that treatments that have no strong evidence of their safety and/or effectiveness should only be offered in a research setting. Our traffic-light rated list of add-ons consists of three colours that indicate whether the evidence, in the form of high-quality RCTs, shows that a treatment add-on is effective at improving the chances of having a baby for someone undergoing fertility treatment. Additional treatment add-ons are likely to be rated by us over time. The treatment add-ons included on this page are not a complete list of all the add-ons that patients may be offered. To make it easier to understand the scientific evidence for each treatment add-on we have developed our traffic-light rated list of add-ons, available below. We aim to publish clear and reliable information about some of the treatment add-ons that don’t have enough evidence, from high-quality randomised control trials (RCTs), to show that they improve your chances of having a baby. If you are paying directly for your own treatment, you may want to think about whether it might be more effective and/or affordable to pay for multiple routine proven treatment cycles, rather than spending large sums of money on a single treatment cycle with treatment add-ons that haven’t been proven to be effective at increasing the likelihood of you having a baby. It is important to keep in mind that for most patients, having routine cycles of proven fertility treatment are effective without using any treatment add-ons. Some treatment add-ons can cost hundreds or thousands of pounds each.
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