Anyone had PGT-A testing during NHS-funded fertility treatment?

[Babydust2026]

We had our first consultation with our fertility specialist today - NHS funded. They discussed PGT-A testing. This would need to be self-funded. Has anyone done this? What are the pros and cons? I'm worried I will be left with no viable embryos and this will be the end of my NHS funding.

You can only get it funded on the NHS if you have certain confirmed genetic issues

personally I wouldn’t bother. In the U.K. clinics aren’t allowed to transfer anything tested as mosaic (even though in the USA many mosaic embryos do go on to become healthy babies) so you could very well lose all your embryos and have nothing to transfer. If you go on the HFEAA website even they consider PGTA as not a necessary add on to improve IVF success rates. They basically only test 5 out of maybe 100 cells on the outside of the embryo which would eventually make up the placenta (not the baby itself) and those 5 cells determine whether it’s considered euploid or not
unless you have a long history of multiple miscarriages I wouldn’t waste your money or your embryos

my story….lots of miscarriages, all the testing known to science didn’t come up with any reasons why so it seemed like PGTA was the final one to try. Even my private IVF clinic said don’t bother doing it but I insisted….Age 36 I didn’t get a single euploid and they had to be destroyed.

I decided not to PGTA test again but changed my IVF protocol and had healthy twins on the next transfer…..my IVF doctor said “I told you so” 🤣

I also personally wouldn't do it. It's not 100% accurate. As mentioned above you also can't transfer the partially normal ones here, even though it is a fact it is possible for them to develop normally.

The best way to test an embryo is to transfer it, and see what happens.

Thank you both - really helpful :)

Is a better indicator the embryo grading then? And is ICM more important? I hadn’t realised that the cells they test are from the outer part that forms the placenta.

embryo grading is still VERY subjective - it’s done by eye by individual embryologists so it’s likely that no two people will have the same opinion on them

I did a lot of reading and research through 5 rounds of IVF and many losses and from studies I read grading is just one factor. What’s also important is how the embryo develops in those first 1-5 days - how fast it divided and when etc.

my twins are a day 5 AA (odds are he’s my boy) and day 6 BC (odds are she’s my girl)

I know loads of who had failed implantations or miscarriages from AA embryos but had success with lower graded ones x