IVF and fertility services for single women

We offer cost-effective, comprehensive fertility care for single women.

Some of the benefits of choosing CREATE:

• Our One-stop fertility test includes an ovarian reserve test – saving you time and money
• We offer a successful and swift donor sperm facility from our European and London sperm banks
• Our safe and tailored treatment options are delivered by pinoneering experts in their field

Contact us today to get the best care you deserve

Information on selecting donor sperm

Considering treatment using donor sperm

A significant problem facing many patients is the shortage of donor sperm available, many of our patients have to buy in samples from abroad. Create Health is in the process of forming our own donor sperm bank.  By having our own donor bank we can reduce the costs of import enabling more patients the chance to have a child.  We will provide you with details of overseas sperm banks to enable you to select your donor.

Legal responsibility

It has been shown it is important for some donor-conceived people to find out more about their genetic origins, therefore the Government removed anonymity for donors in April 2005. This means that anyone conceived using donated sperm will be allowed to ask the HFEA for identifying information about the donor when they reach the age of 18, or 16 if they are planning to marry. They will be able to find out who you are and possibly want to get in touch. For this reason you must discuss this with your partner and family.

It is important to remember that after completion of the appropriate consent forms, you will be regarded as the legal parents or any child born as a result of the treatment.  The donor will not be financially or emotionally liable for the upbringing of any child created using the donor’s sperm.

You can discuss the above with us or with our counsellor.

Donor assessment process

All donors are asked a series of questions to make sure that they are suitable and aware of all the implications involved in becoming a donor.

We can accept donors between the ages of 18 and 45 years, they should be fit and healthy, and they and their families should be free from any serious medical condition or genetic disease. We cannot accept donors from high-risk groups, such as; Drug users, Haemophiliacs (treated with blood products), Residents from high-risk areas such as Central Africa & Men who, are or ever have been, sexually involved with members (male or female) of these groups.

In addition, there are strict criteria regarding the quality of sperm before donors are regarded as suitable to donate. 

Treatment process

Following your initial consultation, initial ultrasound scan and treatment consultation, you will be required to have the following blood tests:

Hepatitis B Surface Antigen, Hepatitis B Core Antibody, Hepatitis C, HIV, Syphilis, Chlamydia, Gonorrhoea, CMV*

* The CMV blood test is important for matching with a donor.  If you are CMV positive, your donor can be either CMV positive or CMV negative.  However, if you are CMV negative, then your donor must also be CMV negative

You will need to receive an implications counselling session through our Counsellor, Mollie Graneek.  Please call 07710631702 to book a session.  You will not be able to proceed to treatment without receiving implications counselling.  Please note, there is an additional charge for the Counselling session.

The next stage is to attend Create Health for a treatment consultation with our nursing team.  The treatment protocol will be explained, you will be shown how to administer your medication, and any questions you have will be answered. 

You may be required to have additional procedures such as tubal patency tests (HyCoSy) prior to commencing treatment. 

Before treatment can commence, we must have the donor sperm in our cryobank.  You will not commence treatment unless we have the sperm available. 

Using overseas donor banks

We can provide you with information for several overseas donor banks.  You will be asked to access their donor catalogues online and make a selection of donors.  Once your donor is available, you will be required to make payment to the donor bank.

The donor bank will make contact with us and will make the arrangements to transport the samples.

• European Sperm Bank
• Xytex
• Cryos International