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The Patients’ Guide to Services 2009-2010 Making a first appointment To book a first appointment, please telephone 01922 455911. An initial consultation can usually be booked within four weeks. New patients are asked to obtain a referral letter from their GP or hospital specialist, if possible. For more information before making a decision or to look around the clinic, please telephone MFS and the team will be more than happy to help. Prospective patients are also welcome to attend any of MFS's free, no-obligation open evenings from 6.00-8.00pm on: Thursday 29 October 2009 Thursday 26 November 2009 Thursday 10 December 2009 Thursday 28 January 2010 Thursday 25 February 2010 Thursday 25 March 2010 Thursday 29 April 2010 Thursday 27 May 2010 Thursday 24 June 2010 Thursday 29 July 2010 Thursday 26 August 2010 Thursday 30 September 2010 Patient Forum The MFS Patient Forum is an interactive 24/7, virtual patient support group for past, current and future MFS patients. Access it free, online at www.midlandfertility.com. Keeping patients informed Patients are involved in all decisions about treatment. MFS's experienced staff guide them through their fertility investigations or treatments and provide all the necessary information and advice to help them make decisions that optimise their chances of conceiving. Feedback To enable MFS to monitor the treatment experience at the unit patients may be asked to complete questionnaires. MFS welcomes all feedback - both positive and negative - which should be addressed to Anna Kavanagh, director of quality and business. Patients' experiences of MFS can help to improve the services offered. Complaints can be addressed to any member of the MFS team, who will pass on the comments to Anna Kavanagh in her role as complaints officer. Any issues can then be investigated thoroughly and a summary of the investigation made available to the patient. A copy of the complaints procedure is available to all new patients and can be found via www.midlandfertility.com. www.midlandfertility.com Full details of all MFS's services, costs and commitment to patient care are available at www.midlandfertility.com. 4 | Midland Fertility Services
MFS In 2008-2009 The Patients’ Guide to Services 2009-2010 MFS 'babies', patients and staff celebrate 21 years of MFS In 2008 MFS celebrated 21 years of providing fertility treatment to people in the Midlands and throughout the UK. In the same year the clinic achieved a clinical pregnancy rate from IVF and ICSI, for women under the age of 38, of 29.4% per cycle started and 40.1% per embryo transfer. The livebirth rate for IVF and ICSI treatments in 2007 for women under the age of 38 was 26.4% per cycle started and 33.6% per embryo transfer. 340 babies were born in 2008 including MFS's first baby from a frozen blastocyst and the 4,000th baby following treatment at MFS. As well as achieving a livebirth rate per cycle started in 2007 for IVF and ICSI frozen embryo transfers of 35.6% for women under the age of 38 (which is almost double the national average of 19.9%), embryologists in the MFS laboratory also achieved high success rates for blastocyst transfers in 2007, with a livebirth rate per transfer of 43.4%. With the elective single embryo transfer (eSET) policy MFS implemented in early 2009, such results will help to achieve the government target for reducing the number of multiple births following fertility treatment, while maintaining the pregnancy rate for singleton babies. More than 1,000 current and former patients and their babies, toddlers, children and teenagers joined MFS for the clinic's 21st celebrations in June 2008. Some of them appear in the commemorative picture on the front cover of this Patients' Guide to Services. Later in 2008 MFS brought vitrification to the West Midlands and further enhanced the Midland Fertility Services | 5
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