Egg sharing is a unique opportunity that allows women facing fertility issues to help one another whilst never meeting.
Women who join the Lister Fertility Clinic’s egg sharing programme receive free standard IVF treatment. They also have the chance to share some of their eggs with women who are unable to use or produce their own eggs. Egg recipients rely on other women to provide their donated eggs and although we have one of the largest egg donation programmes in the UK, many women are still waiting for their chance to have a child. The programme ensures both women have an opportunity to achieve a pregnancy. In addition to receiving free standard IVF, egg sharers also receive greatly reduced prices for additional treatment options such as Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI).
Our research data, published in a respected peer review journal, also shows that the treatment does not reduce an egg sharers chance to achieve a pregnancy or live birth.
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Egg sharing versus self-pay IVF treatment 2005 to 2010
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Egg Sharer
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Self-funded patient
Age <35
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Number of cycles
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470
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3368
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Pregnancy rate (%)
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55.7
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56.7
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Live birth rate (%)
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40.4
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43.1
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Peer review publication:
Does egg-sharing compromise the chance of donors or recipients achieving a live birth?
M.Y.Thum1, A.Gafar, M.Wren, R.Faris, B.Ogunyemi, L.Korea, L.Scott and H.I.Abdalla
Human Reproduction Vol.18, No.11 pp. 2363±2367, 2003
Lister Fertility Clinic information
The Lister Fertility Clinic was one of the first hospitals in the UK to offer egg sharing and has completed more than 1000 cycles.
