NSW best and worst IVF clinics and their success rates

Men and women can now check the success rates and see the best and worst performing IVF clinics in NSW. Search and see the full list.

Exclusive: Twice as many women went home with a baby at higher performing IVF clinics in NSW than those with lower success rates.

Analysis of the latest IVF success rates reported on the Federal Government’s Your IVF success website shows natonally as well as in NSW Genea is the stand out performer with multiple clinics in the top ten for both older and younger women.

Among younger women Fertility First, Monash IVF Bondi, IVF North Shore and Eastern Suburbs and budget provider Adora were among the top ten performers.

For older women aged 35-42 Genea clinics took out the top four spots with between 30 and 38.6 per cent of women getting a baby.

Monash IVF Bondi, IVF Australia North Shore and Monash IVF Albury, IVF Australia Western Sydney and Hunter IVF were also in the top ten.

Last year News Corp revealed couples are paying over $15,000 for each IVF cycle and being left out of pocket by up to $5,688 and this means researching the best providers is a critical exercise.

Just as critical is knowing how your age can affect your chances of having a baby and a handy tool on the government run Yourivfsuccess website lets you explore this.

“The proportion of patients over 40 is getting bigger every year and it’s an uphill struggle. Those eggs have been there since before the woman was born, the idea that you can change their quality in the last few weeks before you collect them by giving medications of some sort is a struggle,” Professor Bill Ledger head of gynaecology and University of NSW said

The performance of IVF clinics is measured in four ways by independent University of NSW experts and couples can search the success rates of individual clinics on a government run website called Yourivfsuccess.com.au.

Using the data we produced an interactive table of IVF success rates based on measure 1 which tracked the number of live births that resulted from the eggs (fresh or frozen) collected from women in 2019 that were fertilised and implanted as embryos in 2019 and 2020.

At the best performing clinics more than one in three women aged 35-42 were successful at getting a live birth.

Sydney IVF patient Sophia Ang and partner Lucas Dobrolot, with their son, Hector at home. Sophia was 35 when she underwent treatment due to unexplained infertility and her treatment resulted in the birth of baby boy Hector in December 2022. Picture: Jonathan Ng

At the least successful clinics just one in 8 older women went home with a baby.

In NSW Genea’s Orange clinic had a stand out success rate of 68.3 per cent among younger women and 24 per cent among women aged 35-42 but it treated only 66 women.

Among larger clinics Genea Sydney CBD which treated 1,788 women had a 60 per cent success rate among younger women and a 30 per cent success rate among older women.

Genea Newcastle treated 329 women and had a 56.3 per cent success rate among younger women and a 33.3 per cent success rate among older women.

IVF Australia North Shore which treated 1037 women had a 54.7 per cent success rate among younger women and 28.4 per cent among women aged 35-42.

Monash IVF Bondi Junction had a success rate of 58.1 per cent among younger women and 29.4 per cent among older women but it only treated 280 women.

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The budget Westmead Fertility Centre which treated 1145 women a 47 per cent success rate among women aged under 35 and 23.5 per cent among women aged 35-42.

Adora Fertility had a success rate of 48.9 per cent among younger women and 24.9 per cent among older women.

Nationally what’s really interesting is the huge variation in performance even within the same clinic groups.

At Monash IVF’s most successful clinic in Bondi in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, 58.1 per cent of women aged under 35 got a baby in 2020 compared to just 16.1 per cent at its Sale clinic in Victoria.

More than 68.3 per cent of younger women at Genea’s Orange clinic in NSW went home with a baby compared to 42.1 per cent per cent at its Melbourne clinic.

Adora’s Sydney clinic delivered a baby to 48.9 per cent of younger women but only 31.6 per cent got a baby at its Perth clinic.

At IVF Australia’s North shore clinic in Sydney 54.7 per cent of younger women got a baby bit at its Canberra clinic only 30.2 per cent did.

Mark Bowman, medical director, at Genea Fertility. Picture: Renee Nowytarger Photography

Genea’s medical director Mark Bowman said just a few more or a few less pregnancies at smaller clinics treating fewer than 300 women can easily skew their performance rating.

A clinic which had 90 per cent of its clients aged 29 would do better than one that had a high percentage of women aged 33 “because female age is so important in predicting success”, he said.

Nationally Genea is the stand out performer with multiple clinics in the top 10 for both older and younger women.

Monash IVF and IVF Australia had several high performing clinics but smaller operators like Care Fertility in Brisbane, Fertility First in Sydney, Ballarat IVF and Repromed in Adelaide scored exceptionally well among younger women.

Among older women Genea’s Wollongong clinic and Monash IVF’s Auchenflower clinic in Brisbane were the top performers delivering babies to more than 38 per cent of women. However, both treated a small number of women.

Among clinics treating over 300 women Genea again led the field in treating women aged 35-42 and had four clinics in the top ten.

Among younger women aged under 35 up to three in four women went home with a baby and at the worst performing clinics only one in six women got a baby.

Care Fertility in Brisbane had an astounding 72.2 per cent success rate but it is worth noting it treated only 91 women.

Monash IVF’s chief scientific officer Associate Professor Deirdre Zander- Fox. Supplied

Among clinics treating over 300 women Fertility North in WA ranked first with a success rate of 60.8 per cent among younger women and Genea’s Sydney CBD clinic came second with a 60 per cent success rate among women aged under 35, it also had two other clinics in the top 10.

Performance among the other clinics in the top ten ranged between 49.7 per cent and 56.3 per cent for women aged under 35.

Genea’s medical director Mark Bowman said the company’s high success rate was due to all its equipment being in house and developed by its biotech arm.

“We’ve done lots of studies to show that gets you more embryos per egg collection, better quality embryos pre collection, which means you’ve got more opportunities to succeed,” he said.

Monash IVF’s chief scientific officer Associate Professor Deirdre Zander- Fox said the company was “rolling out the latest in incubators and using very high sensitivity equipment to monitor our temperature and gas concentrations and … we have had a significant improvement over the last four years of 5.3 per cent across the whole Monash IVF group,” she said.

IVF Australia manging director Teena Pisarev said “it’s pleasing to note that IVFAustralia’s large metropolitan clinics, where we have heavily invested in the latest IVF science, run well ahead of the Australian average.”

Originally published as NSW best and worst IVF clinics and their success rates