Revealed: Australia’s best and worst IVF clinics for 2024

These are Australia’s highest and lowest performing IVF clinics, according to new data. See the list and how to pick the one that’s right for you.

EXCLUSIVE: Women seeking fertility treatment are 10 times more likely to have a baby if they seek help from the highest performing IVF clinic in Australia, compared with the lowest performing one.

Nationally, on average, 48.1 per cent of embryo transfers resulted in a baby for women aged under 35, and for those 35 to 42 it was 25.7 per cent, according to the newest figures from the Federal Government’s Your IVF Success website.

NSW performed well above average with Genea Orange the top clinic in the state for women under 35, with 68.1 per cent of embryo transfers resulting in a baby, and Genea Wollongong the top performer in the state for those aged 35 to 42, with 44 per cent of embryo transfers resulting in a baby.

In Victoria both the top two clinics in both performed well, but not as good as NSW, with

Monash IVF Geelong the top clinic in the state for women under 35, with 58.6 per cent of embryo transfers resulting in a baby Monash IVF Bendigo the top performer for women aged 35 to 42, with a rate of 45 per cent.

Queensland Fertility Group Townsville was the top clinic in the state for women under 35, with 64.4 per cent and and Monash IVF Bundaberg was the top performer in the state for those aged 35 to 42 with 37 per cent,.

Repromed Adelaide in Dulwich was the top clinic in South Australia for women under 35, with 54.1 per cent and Genea Fertility SA was the top performer in the state for those aged 35 to 42, with 27.6 per cent.

Tasmania’s clinics performed below the national average in the under-35 age group, but TasIVF performed better than the national average in women aged 35 to 42.

Northern Territory’s only clinic Repromed Darwin produced results above the national average.

Independent experts from UNSW looked at five performance measures to determine the figures on the Your IVF Success website.

From those results we produced two league tables of IVF success rates.

The first table shows the number of live births that resulted from the eggs (fresh or frozen) collected from women in 2021 that were fertilised and implanted as embryos in 2021 and 2022.

A second table shows the number of pregnancies per treatment, using data from 2023.

One in 18 babies in Australia are conceived through IVF and in 2022 there were 100,038 IVF cycles, with 17,963 babies born using the technology.

Dr Frank Quinn, Medical Director, IVFAustralia, said their metro-based clinics have consistently high IVF success rates that sit well above the national average for all age groups.

“It can be difficult to compare individual clinic success rates as the results can be easily skewed if a clinic treats more complex patients or has a higher number of older patients,” Dr Quinn said.

Monash IVF Group Chief Scientific Officer, Professor Deirdre Zander-Fox.

Chief Scientific Officer at Monash IVF Prof Deirdre Zander-Fox said Your IVF Success was a valuable tool for people seeking IVF.

However, she said they should also choose a clinic with the help of a specialist, as everyone is individual.

Genea Fertility Specialist Dr Chandrika Parmar.

Genea Fertility Specialist Dr Chandrika Parmar said key technology such as state-of-the-art incubators ensured their clinics achieved excellent results.

“Genea has consistently achieved success rates above the national average across all measures and age groups since the introduction of Your IVF Success, and we continue to build on that success through innovative approaches,” Dr Parmar said.

“As we review opportunities to integrate AI, our focus remains on enhancing both success rates and the overall patient experience.”

The clinics also use time-lapse technology for all embryos, which couples can watch via an app.

Casey Foxton and she and partner Mathew Hinkley “got lucky” when she fell pregnant with daughter Sophie via IVF last year. Picture: Modified Photography

Casey Foxton, 30, and her partner, Matthew Hinkley, 42, knew it wouldn’t be easy to conceive because of Ms Foxton’s low egg count and Mr Hinkley’s vasectomy, which he underwent after having two children in a previous relationship.

The couple said they lived through “constant pressure” as they underwent three rounds of IVF with Genea Fertility Wollongong in NSW over two years. They chose the clinic because of its reputation and because their clinician Dr Lionel Reyftmann had helped a friend.

In total they spent $35,000 on IVF treatment and had to use some of Mr Hinkley’s superannuation to fund it, which included his urologist costs.

Ms Foxton said it was a shock when the first IVF round failed, but praised Dr Reyftmann and the nurses for their confidence and positivity throughout each round.

She said they “got lucky” last year when she fell pregnant, but she was in denial that it had worked, saying, “it’s such a process to get to that point, you’re constantly sitting there waiting for something to go wrong.”

In July this year the couple welcomed their daughter Sophie.

Originally published as Revealed: Australia’s best and worst IVF clinics for 2024