Monday, August 15, 2011

IVF clinic blunders: 10 mistakes a week bring heartbreak to couples

IVF clinic blunders: 10 mistakes a week bring heartbreak to couples | Mail Online: Childless couples are having their hopes of a baby wrecked by soaring numbers of mistakes at fertility clinics. Some 564 serious errors or ‘near misses’ occurred at centres in Britain last year – more than ten every week.

The figures have trebled since 2007, raising concerns over the standards of clinics. There is also suspicion that the Government watchdog – the Human Fertility and Embryology Association – is not properly regulating the industry and forcing failing centres to close.

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