Queensland best and worst IVF clinics and their success rates

Men and women desperate for a baby can now check the success rates and see the best and worst performing IVF clinics in Queensland. Search and see the full list.

Exclusive: Queensland boasts some of the most successful IVF clinics in the nation but performance rates vary and three times as many women get a baby at top performing clinics compared to poorer performers.

Analysis of the latest IVF success rates reported on the Federal Government’s Your IVF success website shows Care Fertility in Brisbane is the nation’s top performing clinic delivering a baby to 72.2 per cent of wmen aged under 35..

Nationally Monash IVF Auchenflower with a score of 38.3 per cent was equal top for providing a baby to women aged 35-42.

However, both clinics treated only a small number of women and just a few more or less pregnancies each year could skew results.

Among younger women Care Fertility, Monash IVF clinics in Auchenflower, Rockhamptom and the Gold Coast, Queensland Fertility Group clinics in Mackay, Gold Coast and Cairns, Cairns Fertility Centre and Fertiity Solutions Bundaberg made the top ten performers in the state.

Among older women aged 35-42 Monash IVF Auchenflower and Rockhampton, Queensland Fertility Group clinics in Mackay, Cairns and the Gold Coast, Care fertility, Fertility Solutions Bundaberg, City Fertility Brisbane and Adora fertility were among the top ten in the state.

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.

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“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.

IVF patient Sophia Ang and partner Lucas Dobrolot, with their son, Hector at home in Dulwich Hill. 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

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.

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

In Queensland Monash IVF Auchenflower had the highest success rate among older women with 38.3 per cent gaining a baby and 50 per cent of women aged under 35 got a baby however it treated only 202 women.

Care Fertility was the most successful clinic among those aged under 35 with 72.2 per cent gaining having a baby. Among women aged 35-42 30.9 per cent got a baby. This clinic treated only 91 women

In Brisbane City Fertility which treated 408 patients had a 27.4 per cent success rate among older women and 36.1 per cent among younger women.

Queensland Fertility Group Gold Coast which treated 318 women had a 25.8 per cent success rate among older women and a 45.2 per cent success rate among younger women.

Adora Fertility Brisbane which treated 917 women had a 38.3 per cent success rate among younger women and a 23.1 per cent success rate among older women

Queensland’s largest clinic Queensland Fertility Group Brisbane which treated 1381 women had a 40.3 per cent success rate among younger women and a 21.3 per cent success rate among older women.

City Fertility Brisbane had a success rate of 39.7 per cent among younger women and 27.4 per cent among women aged 35-42.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Mr 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.”