IVF service data 2025

​Request 805444165

Please provide the following information:

2025 Assisted Reproduction Unit (ARU) - IVF Activity

1. The total number of fresh IVF cycles undertaken in 2025.

2. The total number of frozen embryo transfers (FET) undertaken in 2025.

3. A breakdown of fresh IVF cycles and frozen embryo transfers in 2025 by:

- Publicly funded cycles

- Self-funded (private) cycles

4. How this compares to the number of fresh IVF cycles and frozen embryo transfers undertaken in the previous 3 years

2025 Financial Information

5. The total spend from the IVF budget in 2025.

6. The average cost per:

- Publicly funded fresh IVF cycle

- Publicly funded frozen embryo transfer (FET) cycle

Private/Self-Funded Treatment Income (2025)

7. The total income received by Health and Community Services (HCS) in 2025 from privately funded IVF and FET monitoring (including scans and related on-island services).

8. A breakdown of how this income was allocated within HCS budgets.

9. Confirmation of whether and how this income offsets ARU staffing costs.

Response

1 to 3

• 45 fresh IVF cycles were publicly funded. This does not include self-funded (private) fresh IVF cycles.
• 12 frozen embryo transfers were publicly funded. This does not include self-funded (private) frozen embryo transfers.

Health and Care Jersey (HCJ) has historically reported figures for all IVF cycles supported via the Assisted Reproduction Unit on the basis that, prior to 2025, IVF was a self-funded service (i.e. the patient paid) which was publicly subsidised (self-funding IVF patients received drugs, scans and blood tests for free, including associated nurse care).

From January 2025, IVF provision has been separated into publicly funded IVF provision (as reported above) and wholly self-funded IVF provision delivered on a private patient basis; any self-funded IVF falls under the remit of individual private practice, rather than a public service delivered through HCJ.

4

Figures for self-funded publicly subsidised fresh IVF cycles and frozen embryo transfers undertaken in 2022 and 2023 are:

2022

• Fresh IVF cycles: 71
• Frozen embryo transfers: 63

2023

• Fresh IVF cycles: 72
• Frozen embryo transfers: 61

Figures for self-funded publicly subsidised fresh IVF cycles and frozen embryo transfers undertaken in 2024 have been provided in a previous Freedom of Information response, published to www.gov.je in 2025 at the following link:

gov.je/government/freedomofinformation/pages/foi.aspx?ReportID=8229​

As information is available elsewhere, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

5 and 6

£351,374 of the £620,000 budget in 2025 for publicly funded IVF provision. This does not include staff costs incurred in the delivery of publicly funded IVF provision in 2025.

Overhead costs associated with treatment and service provision, including drugs, pathology services, etc., are not allocated on a cycle-by-cycle basis, and therefore, average cycle costs for publicly funded fresh IVF and frozen embryo transfers are not provided.

The attached table details the breakdown of the total costs incurred in delivering the 45 publicly funded fresh IVF cycles and 18 publicly funded frozen embryo transfers through 2025. This does not include staff costs.

[LINK 2025 costs]​

7

Private healthcare providers are charged for the use of HCJ resources in the provision of their private service (for example, use of rooms, operating theatres and equipment). The total income to the public purse in 2025 in relation to private IVF provision was £1,895.

8 and 9

Income generated into the public purse from private healthcare providers is allocated to HCJ’s central budget to reduce the overall tax burden in providing public HCJ services; it is not allocated directly to the equivalent public service budget (i.e. income to the public purse from private IVF provision is not provided exclusively to the Assisted Reproduction Unit).

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