IVF clinics and results in Wales
4 licensed clinics, 3 NHS designated centres.

Where Welsh NHS patients have IVF

Source: WHSSC CP38 Specialist Fertility Services v9.0 (January 2017, released under FOI). Private providers are not normally used. The list may have changed since.

Wales had 4 HFEA-licensed treatment clinics in 2024/25 (HFEA, November 2025). Across the UK, 71 of the 107 treatment clinics are private, and most clinics, NHS or private, treat both NHS-funded and self-funded patients.

Questions for your first appointment

If your care may move between a Welsh hospital and a centre over the border, the book's script for the first appointment is especially useful. Map to the Positive suggests asking:

• What's your approach to the type of case I'm bringing you?
• What workup sequence do you suggest, and how long until we have a diagnosis?
• Which treatments would you consider for this scenario, in order?
• How do you follow patients in the months between appointments?
• What's your success rate in cases like mine?
• If we get to assisted reproduction, do you refer out or perform it?

This is one chapter. The map has 42.

These questions come from Chapter 31 of Map to the Positive, on choosing the right doctor, in Station IV. It also covers the signs of a good professional, the warning signs, and when a second opinion makes sense. The same station explains the treatment ladder and IVF phase by phase.