This is a survey for clinician BFS members. Please take the time to complete this survey about the use of intra-uterine HCG to enhance implantation. We are interested to see whether the recent Cochrane review will affect UK practice and whether clinicians would support a UK trial on this subject. Your opinion is highly valued!

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Sofia Gameiro & Jacky Boivin, School of Psychology, Cardiff University

Jacky Boivin and Sofia Gameiro are putting a grant request in to develop a study to test the feasibility and acceptability of a one hour e-learning course about delivering bad news in fertility clinics.  As you may know the HFEA is now looking to boost […]

BFS is supporting the Reproductive Medicine Clinical Studies Group and the Priority Setting Partnership for Infertility www.phc.ox.ac.uk/infertility

We would like to encourage healthcare professionals, researchers, and people with infertility to complete a short interim survey: https://qeurope.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eFd5BncmEbRWFNj

Unanswered research questions have been organised into ten themes including male infertility, unexplained female infertility, and in vitro […]

We are surveying clinicians to find out their views on the management of moderate and severe OHSS, to help plan a multi-centre trial in response to a call by the National Institute for Health Research.

Please help us plan a useful trial by completing this survey and making your views heard.

The survey […]

BFS is supporting the development of a minimum data set (core outcome set) for infertility.

We are coming together address the widespread, unwarranted variation in the collection and reporting of outcomes in infertility research. This is a barrier to improving the care people with infertility receive.

We strongly encouraging anyone, anywhere with expertise or experience infertility to […]

By Professor Joyce Harper, Dr Kylie Baldwin, Dr Lucy Van de Wiel and Professor Jacky Boivin Appeared in BioNews 946

In the UK, the storage limit for eggs frozen for social reasons is currently limited to ten years: too short for healthy young women wanting to preserve their opportunities to conceive later in life.

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The LOCI (Letrozole Or Clomifene for ovulation Induction) trial is a proposed new study to determine the best treatment for ovulation induction (OI). This is planned to be a 2×2 factorial design trial, so that women will first be randomised to receive clomifene or letrozole, then a second randomisation will
decide if they receive […]

Today (2 February 2018), the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has published a scientific impact paper that shows that government funding is the most important factor in reducing the rate of multiple pregnancies following IVF treatment.

Consultant Gynaecologist Dr Jane Stewart, Chair of the British Fertility Society said “Along with the […]

This event is run by the Science Media Centre and is on Wednesday 7th March 2018 at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in London from 1pm to 5pm.

For more information and to register to this FREE event – please follow the link below.

introduction to the news media

On IVF’s 40th anniversary we should be celebrating Jean Purdy – the world’s first embryologist – who died before she could see the full impact of her pioneering work.

Behind every Nobel Prize winning man, there is a brilliant woman, or so it seems. Like Rosalind Franklin (who jointly discovered the 3D structure of DNA) […]