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Lord Winston (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 12 March 2025

Debate

Apricity Fertility Closure

Contribution

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Owen, asks a most important Question, and I am grateful to my noble friend the Minister for answering it at least partially. I argue that much more of an answer is needed. Apricity advertised a success rate that was literally impossible; indeed, it was more than double the national success rate. Again and again, patients are being sucked into in vitro fertilisation—which may not always be the best treatment for them, just because they are infertile—because they think they will have a better chance of success than they actually have. It is time to be much more rigorous. As my noble friend the Minister is seeing the HFEA chair tomorrow, will she ask her how well the HFEA feels it is auditing the results it gets from clinics? In my view, many clinics are exaggerating, in all sorts of ways, what the success rate is.

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