30 July 2017
To all Persons Responsible
Dear colleague
Launch of our new website
I last wrote to you in April to summarise the changes we will make to Choose a Fertility Clinic before it goes live. In that letter, I promised to send a methodology for all the data to be presented on the new version of Choose a Fertility Clinic, which I attach.
We will shortly publish pregnancy data for the 12 months ending June 2016 and birth data for the 12 months ending June 2015 on the beta version of Choose a Fertility Clinic. Thank you again for your efforts during the verification process. We have been working through the data caveats that will appear on each clinic’s profile (where necessary) and will send those caveats to individual clinics in the next few days.
Because the new website will be going live in the next few weeks, we will not publish the new data on the existing website, but only on the beta version of the new site. So, if you would like to direct patients to your latest outcome statistics, you will need to use the following address, once the data has been published (we will let you know when that happens): https://www.hfea.gov.uk/choose-a-clinic/clinic-search/
Once the new website has gone live, the you will need to update the link again. Each clinic’s entry on Choose a Fertility Clinic will have a unique web address (though different from the old service). When the new website goes live we will put a notice on this page directing patients to the relevant data on the new site.
Yours faithfully
Peter Thompson
Chief Executive
Annex 1 - Choose a Fertility Clinic methodology for statistics