Information & Guides
Patient Information Leaflets
Recurrent Miscarriage Clinic
Here at the BCRM recurrent miscarriage clinic, we want to help you to move forward with your plans to build a family feeling supported and with confidence that there is no clear cause for your pregnancy losses.
PGT-A (Pre-Implantation Genetic Testing)
We know that chromosomally normal embryos are more likely to result in a successful pregnancy and livebirth. PGT-A is a selection tool to increase the likelihood of a healthy on-going pregnancy
PGT-M & PGT-SR (Pre-Implantation Genetic Testing)
Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Monogenic/Single Gene Defects (PGT-M) or structural rearrangements in Chromosomes (PGT-SR) are genetic tests that can be performed on embryos before they are implanted into the uterus during in vitro fertilization (IVF).
IVF with ICSI
ICSI is a remarkable and successful treatment of male infertility. The first child to be born as a result of ICSI was delivered in 1992 and ICSI has now led to the birth of hundreds of thousands of babies throughout the world.
EmbryoScope+ Time Lapse Incubation
We are now offering you the opportunity to have time-lapse EmbryoScope+ advanced embryo culture system and monitoring as part of your Fertility treatment
Outpatient Hysteroscopy
A hysteroscopy is a way of examining the inside of the womb by passing a thin telescope through the vagina and cervix (neck of womb). It can be used to detect abnormalities of the womb, which may impact on fertility such as polyps, fibroids, uterine septum and scar tissue.
Guide to Purchasing Donor Sperm
This leaflet is to support you in purchasing Donor Sperm. Before you make your reservation you must have had a consultation with one of the BCRM medical team who will guide you though the appropriate investigations and agree a treatment plan with you.
BCRM IVF Packages
A breakdown of BCRM's Essential, Enhanced and Advanced IVF package options.
Emotional and Ethical Implications Counselling
Implications Counselling appointment is something that HFEA requires all licenced fertility clinics to provide to any patients having treatment using donated sperm, eggs or embryos, and also to those patients who are donating their sperm, eggs or embryos so others can try for a baby.
Patient Support
The BCRM Patient Support Service provides a range of ways to help you manage any stresses and strains you may encounter while you are a patient in our care. Patient Support sessions are offered by our in house Specialist Fertility Therapists, Wendy Martin and Francine Blanchet
Emotional and Psychological Care
The BCRM Patient Support Service provides a range of ways to help you manage any stresses and strains you may encounter while you are a patient in our care.
Fertility Treatment add-ons
BCRM may offer you treatments or tests in addition to your routine treatment, these are called add-ons.
NK Cell Testing
Our immune system is unique and the varied way it act or responds in different people is not fully understood. Endometrial Natural Killer Cells (NK Cells) are immune type cells found in the womb lining (endometrium).
Endometrial Receptivity Testing - ERA
This test indicates the window of implantation, increasing your chances of successful embryo transfer and achieving high success rates to our patients.
Endometrial Scratch
Research has suggested that pregnancy rates are improved when an endometrial scratch is performed in the cycle before stimulation for an IVF/ICSI cycle for patients that have had recurrent implantation failure.