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Partner with the largest donor egg bank in the UK

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Partner with one of the world’s largest banks of egg donors, and give your patients the freedom of choice. We have over 30 years’ expertise in donor egg IVF. We’re the only dedicated egg bank in the UK, with an extensive database of frozen donated eggs, and the leading provider of egg donation in London.

WHY LONDON EGG BANK?

We’re the UK’s first and largest frozen egg bank, with over 30 years’ experience in donor egg IVF. There are many benefits for your patients in joining us:

Wide range of UK recruited donors

Our donors have been recruited in our UK centres and come from various backgrounds.

Their donated eggs have been cryopreserved, placed in storage and are available for immediate use. This means you don’t have to synchronise patients’ cycles with the donor’s cycle, so patients can start treatment as soon as they wish. Browse our donor database

Online 24/7 Donor Database

Patients can choose a donor from the comfort of their home using the non-identifiable information provided on

our online database. We provide information about their physical characteristics, medical history and also about their personality and interests. Browse our donor database

High Success Rates

We have performed the highest number of egg freezing and thawing cycles with donor eggs in the UK

As a dedicated egg bank, we manage the whole egg donation process to ensure the highest quality of eggs. As a result, our success rates are among the best on record, with over 90% egg survival rate after freezing and above 70% cumulative pregnancy rates per cycle. See our success rates.

Secured UK Legislation

The HFEA set standards for quality and safety, providing security for your patients

The HFEA is one of the best regulatory frameworks in the world, providing patients with transparent success rates and pricing, and high-quality care. A maximum 10 families can be created from a single donor. Some other countries do not have any limits.

Identity-Release Donations

Many patients are seeking identity-release (non-anonymous) donations, which are not widely available in clinics abroad

Any donor-conceived child in the UK can receive identifying information about their donor after they turn 18. The HFEA national donor register holds the information about all egg donors in the UK and will provide it even in cases where the treatment clinic is no longer operating by that time.

Egg thawing survival rate

Cumulative pregnancy rate after one embryo transfer from a single cohort of donated eggs

Cumulative pregnancy rate after two embryo transfers from a single cohort of donated eggs

Success Rates

We manage the egg donation process from start to finish to ensure the highest quality of eggs. As a result of our consistent and reliable approach, many healthy babies have been born through frozen eggs. Our success rates show you our focused approach really works.

Understand our success rates

HOW TO PARTNER WITH US

There are three options

Step 1 – You sign our Third-party Agreement
Step 2 – Your patient contacts us
Your patient contacts us to purchase eggs. Our coordinator provides information and access is granted to the donor database (a fee of £250 is applied, which is later deducted from the cost of donor eggs)
Step 4 – Donor matching
Our matching team assists your patient in selecting their donor eggs
Step 5 – Transportation of eggs to your clinic is arranged
After referring your patient to us, we can create, store and transport embryos for you to use with them at your own clinic. This allows you to stay in full control of the IVF process for your patients.
Step 1 – Patient introduction
Before proceeding with treatment, one of our fertility consultants will review your patient’s medical history, completed HFEA forms and semen analysis results.
Step 2 – Initial consultation & egg donor selection
Our dedicated egg donation coordinator will meet with your patient to discuss our programme. They will then be introduced to our online donor database and work with an expert to find their ideal egg donor match.
Step 3 – Sperm sample collection
Once a suitable egg donor has been chosen, we will get in touch with you to arrange the delivery of the sperm sample. If your patient is using partner sperm, they can either send us a frozen sample or produce a fresh sample at our London Harley Street clinic on the same day as the egg is thawed.
At this point, we will need to see your patient’s recent infectious screening results.
Step 4 – Embryo creation
Our expert team will culture embryos in a state-of-the-art laboratory. When they reach the blastocyst stage at around day five or six, any suitable embryos will be frozen and safely stored.
Step 5 – Shipment to your clinic
When you are ready to receive the viable embryos, we will transport them safely to your clinic. Our senior embryologist will keep in regular contact with both you and your patient throughout this process, keeping you up to date on the progress of the embryos while they’re in transit.
If you’d prefer to refer your patient for full treatment at one of our UK-based clinics, our team of fertility specialists would be more than happy to support them throughout their entire fertility journey.
Once referred, we will book them in for a consultation with one of our fertility consultants.
At this point, we will review factors like their age, medical history and fertility background, before performing specific scans, taking blood tests and, if a male partner is involved, analysing their semen sample.
Using this information, we can then advise them on the best type of fertility treatment plan, setting them up with our dedicated egg donation coordinator, who will introduce them to our online donor database and personalised matching service.
We also ask all patients who are considering using donor eggs to conceive to see an independent counsellor at this point, to explore all the implications involved.
After an egg donor has been chosen, they will meet with one of our nurses to complete their screening tests and provide their consent. Using sperm from either the involved male partner or a sperm donor, we fertilise the eggs in our state-of-the-art lab, before assessing their suitability to perfectly time the embryo transfer.
Once ready, most women will only have one embryo transferred to avoid the risk of multiple pregnancies. We will store any remaining embryos for future use, in case another cycle is needed or your patient would like a sibling pregnancy later on.

WHY UK-SOURCED DONOR EGGS?

Why choosing local donors can offer significant advantages for your patients
  • Accessibility and no waiting time
  • HFEA regulatory standards
  • A broad range of UK-based phenotypes
  • Sought-after ID-release donors
  • Altruistically motivated donors
What our patients say

Who are our donors?

Our egg donors are recruited from within the UK, and they have all donated eggs after passing our rigorous screening process in line with HFEA standards

Donor Screening

Our screening process ensures that they meet the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) requirements. Our donors must also pass extensive medical, genetic and psychological assessments.
We treat all our donors as individuals and offer a high level of care in recognition of their remarkable kindness. But if we look collectively at the wonderful group of women who have donated eggs to our database, we can tell you some of their common characteristics.

Donor Statistics

79% of our donors are educated to degree level or above, come from a wide range of backgrounds and ethnicities. Their main motivation for donating their eggs is a wish to help others, for a variety of different reasons.

Our Experts

Nick Macklon

Medical Director

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Shailaja Nair

Clinical Director

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Hemlata Thackare

Deputy Clinical Director

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Elena Linara-Demakakou

Head of Embryology

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Our Terms and Conditions

Conditions of use:

London Egg Bank (LEB) is a registered company in London based at 112 Harley Street.

By reserving a donor at the LEB, you, the recipient of the donated eggs, confirm that you have:

  • attended a consultation with a fertility doctor at LEB or any registered fertility clinic which has a Third-Party Agreement with LEB and have a treatment plan at that clinic.

  • received verbal and written information about your treatment and had the opportunity to discuss the procedures involved in receiving eggs as part of your treatment with your treating clinic.

  • been informed that you have received all the relevant information pertaining to your treatment from your treating clinic, as required by the HFEA Code of Practice.

  • been offered counselling by your treating clinic regarding the implications of the treatment.

  • received a confirmation of the full cost of your treatment.

Ordering and purchasing donor eggs:

  • An order is considered completed when the recipient has completed and returned all required documentation and made payment.

  • LEB will confirm your order when they have received confirmation of your treatment cycle from your chosen clinic, as well as have received your signed consent forms and payment in full.

  • Frozen eggs provided by LEB should be used in treatment within 4 months of the date of dispatch from LEB. This is to ensure that your reserved pregnancy slot is not lost.

  • Please complete and sign the donor characteristics consent form within 5 days or your order will be cancelled, remember to check your junk/spam mail folder. If you have any queries regarding your donor acceptance paperwork, please call 0207 299 9547 between 08.30 – 17.30hrs and a member of staff will be happy to help you.

  • Donor eggs will only be reserved and dispatched after full payment of eggs and transportation if required (see the Refunds and Cancellation policy for further details).

General:

  • Donor Eggs (Eggs) provided by LEB may only be used for embryo creation at the laboratory of one of the registered clinics which has a TPA with LEB.

  • LEB provides Eggs to you for your exclusive personal use, and you confirm that you will only use them as such.

  • LEB Eggs provided to you may not be resold or distributed without LEB’s written permission.

  • All information relating to donors is kept confidential and disclosed only in the circumstances permitted by law. Information on donors comprises sensitive personal data for purposes of the Data Protection Act 2018. LEB will only provide relevant information about your selected donor to you for the purpose of allowing you to select an Egg donor, without breaching the donor’s confidentiality (Data Protection Act 2018) and the relevant requirements of the HFEA Act 1990.

  • LEB’s donor database usually has a large selection of available donors. However, donor availability may be limited at times. LEB provides donor eggs on a first come, first served basis.

  • It is important that you inform LEB of the treatment date that you have agreed with your clinic. The LEB must be informed of any changes to this date immediately.

  • This agreement does not override the terms of paragraph 4A of Schedule 3 to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (as amended) (‘HFEA Act’) which states that the Egg donor may withdraw or vary her consent from the use of her eggs in treatment at any time. This includes if an embryo has already been created using her Eggs. The variation to consent may occur up until the time of embryo transfer and may result in the discard of this embryo(s).

  • In some cases, there may be the possibility of adding extra eggs to the order from the same or a different donor. Please be aware that embryos created from different donors cannot be used in one treatment cycle.

Quality standards:

  • All donors available via the LEB donor database have been recruited and screened in compliance with donation criteria under the European Tissues and Cells Directive (EUTCD), Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) standards and professional guidance.

  • All frozen donor egg samples have been procured, tested, processed, preserved and stored in a manner consistent with EUTCD and HFEA requirements.

  • LEB does not take responsibility for eggs or embryos being accepted by any other external centres.

  • LEB eggs meet all required quality standards. However, LEB cannot guarantee that a pregnancy will be achieved using donor eggs or that any pregnancy or offspring derived as a result of using the egg donor will be free from genetic disorders/defects or infectious diseases. In particular:

    1. it is not feasible to test for ALL genetic markers or infectious diseases and in some cases, there are no available tests.

    2. donor testing is properly administered; however, even where the results return as normal, the tests have limitations and may not be entirely reliable; and

    3. LEB’s recruitment processes (including counselling) rely on the donor providing accurate and correct information about their genetic and general health history. We treat the information provided by the donor in good faith. LEB is not able to independently verify this information. However, to date we are not aware of any inaccurate information being provided by our donors.

Donor confidentiality:

  • Non-identifying information about each donor is displayed on the LEB donor database. LEB is unable to provide any further personal information on donors.

Refunds and cancellation policy:

  • Should you change your mind and wish to cancel your order for any reason, LEB will offer you a full refund within 5 working days of placing an order. 

  • Please note that the egg thaw survival rate and fertilisation rate provided on our patient information materials represent the averages of all patients per stated period of time and age group. We do not guarantee a minimum egg thaw survival or fertilisation rate per patient cycle. 

  • In the rare event that all the eggs (whether from one donor or a mix of two or more donors) do not survive the thawing process, LEB will offer you a new batch of eggs free of charge.

  • Once donor eggs are dispatched from our premises and delivered to a treatment centre not part of London Women’s
    Clinic / JD Healthcare Group, they are non-returnable and non-refundable.

Limitation of liability:

  • LEB shall not be liable for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials on this site or the performance of the products, even if LEB has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Applicable law may not allow the limitation of exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.

  • London Egg Bank cannot guarantee that additional eggs will be available at a later date for the purposes of treatment for a sibling pregnancy.

  • Donated eggs (fresh and/or frozen) are not quarantined prior to use. There is therefore a theoretical risk of transmission of infection through the transfer of embryos.