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We’ve helped thousands of people build their families, drawing on more than 30 years of expertise in donor egg IVF. As the UK’s leading egg bank, we offer an extensive database of frozen and fresh donated eggs and are London’s foremost provider of IVF with donor eggs. Every year, we welcome and support individuals and couples from Europe, the United States, India, and many other countries on their journey to parenthood.

WHY USE LONDON EGG BANK?

There are many reasons why you should choose donor egg IVF in the UK. Here are some that stand out:

The largest donors database

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 your cycle with the donor’s cycle, so you can start treatment as soon as you wish. Browse our donor database

Secured UK Legislation

There is legislation within the UK which sets standards for quality and safety for all licensed fertility clinics

in the UK and donor banks regulated by a government body; the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). It’s one of the best regulatory frameworks in the world, providing patients with transparent and high-quality care. We hold a license to practice which requires us to follow all HFEA legislation.

Online 24/7 Donor Database

You can choose a donor from the comfort of your own home by yourself 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

Only 10 Families Per Donor

In the UK, up to 10 families can be created from a single donor. However, it is very rare for an egg donor

in the UK to reach this number. Some other countries do not have any limits.

Identity-Release Donation

The donor remains anonymous to you at the time of donation. Non-anonymity means that any child born

because of egg donation can require 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.

Personalised Care

We offer personalised and flexible solutions for international patients, including a multilingual team and customised

treatment plans for your circumstances. You will be assigned a personal treatment coordinator, who will organise your treatment and help you each step of the way with egg donation in London. Our team of nurses, coordinators and doctors speak multiple languages.

International and National Programme

We have a dedicated programme for egg donation in London to help patients from all around the world

and different parts of the UK to create their families. We understand the challenges of travelling abroad for fertility treatment including IVF costs in the UK and have developed a dedicated programme for international patients looking for donor egg IVF in the UK. We offer tailored solutions for your particular circumstances and try to make your journey to parenthood as smooth as possible.

Easy Process

You can prepare for your treatment in your home country and travel to London only for your embryo transfer.

We can provide you with different treatment options to minimise travelling time and fit your needs. Your consultations will be arranged online by your treatment coordinator.

High Success Rates

We have one of the highest numbers 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. Our results demonstrate that our focused approach really works. See our success rates

Age Limit of 55

While there’s no strict age limit in the UK for IVF with donor eggs, with us age limit is 54 years old and 3 months,

so that you give birth by your 55th birthday. In many other countries, fertility treatment with donor eggs cannot be offered after the age of 50. London Egg Bank has extensive experience in successful fertility treatment for patients over 50. See our experts

WHY UK-SOURCED DONOR EGGS?

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

Egg donor IVF at London Egg Bank

Listen to Anita’s story of treatment with donor eggs at London Egg Ban

How does it work?

IVF With Donor Eggs Process

For International Patients

Our friendly onboarding team will help answer initial questions and book a consultation with one of our fertility consultants. Our doctors will review your medical history, including any treatment or investigations you’ve already had elsewhere and provide you with the best course of treatment for you. You can expect to have a scan and some blood tests, and an analysis of a semen sample in your home country if a male partner is involved.

Once you’ve had your consultation with the doctor, your dedicated onboarding coordinator will search our databases and help you with donor selection. We offer both fresh and frozen egg options.

We advise our patients who are considering donor egg IVF in the UK to speak to an independent counsellor who will explain the broader implications and will help patients to make informed decisions. You can do this with us via an online consultation.

Once you are ready to start your treatment, you will have an online consultation with our nurse to go over your consent forms, medication and treatment plan so that you know exactly what to do.

If you have a male partner, he will need to travel to the UK to provide a sperm sample or send us a frozen sperm sample.

Treatment includes donor egg fertilisation in the lab with sperm from your male partner or sperm donor. Fertilised eggs are usually cultured as embryos for five to six days and during this time are monitored using a technology named time-lapse until they reach the blastocyst stage. These embryos can then be frozen and are ready to be used when you are at the right stage of treatment.

Once your embryos are safely frozen, you will have a follow-up consultation with your doctor to discuss the next stage of treatment. For this next step, you will take hormone tablets for about 10-12 days to prepare your uterus for embryo transfer. You will have 2-3 ultrasounds in your home country to start with and then come to the UK once your uterus is nearly ready to receive an embryo.

The best embryo will be transferred under ultrasound guidance into your uterus by one of our fertility consultants using a catheter, a simple and painless process without the need for anaesthetic. You can return to your normal routine after resting for a few minutes.

In order to avoid the risks of multiple pregnancies most women only have one embryo transferred. The remaining embryos can be frozen and stored for future use if another cycle is needed or for a sibling.

Many patients like to wait at least 24 hours after embryo transfer before making the journey back home, but you can fly back home on the same day if you wish. You will be given a date to do the pregnancy test in your home country 12 days after your embryo transfer.

If you have a positive pregnancy test, you should schedule an early pregnancy scan 3 weeks later (7 weeks gestation) and provide us with the report. You will be required to continue all medications to around 12 weeks of pregnancy or until you have had the 12-week pregnancy scan

Should your test be negative you will be instructed to stop medications and we will schedule a follow-up with your consultant.

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You can ask about all aspects of fertility treatment using donor eggs in the UK and discuss your case.
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Consultant in Reproductive Medicine. Languages: Italian, English

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Clinical Director. Languages: English, Hindi, Punjabi

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Laboratory Manager. Languages: Greek, English

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Matching Manager. Languages: English, Spanish, French, basic Italian

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Patient Stories

Carrie’s Story

“It is an expensive process, but IVF with donor eggs costs in the UK is less than half the money in America.”

Carrie’s Story

Zoe and Rick’s Story

“Our decision to use a UK-based egg bank was largely decided by our wish to tell our child about their origins”

Zoe and Rick’s Story

Anita and Richard’s Story

“I successfully used donor eggs in the UK when I was over 45”

Anita and Richard’s Story

Charlotte’s story

Charlotte’s solo journey to motherhood brought her from overseas for treatment.

Charlotte’s story

Patient Stories

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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.