Fertility tests on NHS, do you have to have these done again at private clinic?

[Willow146]

Hi,
Pretty much what the strap line is. Husband and I wouldn’t qualify for NHS funded fertility treatment as we already have a child. If we had the investigations with NHS and the. Approached a clinic would we neee
To pay to have these tests done again or would they take the NHS results? If we would have to pay anyway might as well skip the nhs wait and proceed straight to private?

“Approached a clinic would we need

Awful typing of mine

The only way to know is to ask the clinic. I suspect that some will and some won't.

Yes that would be the most sensible thing to do. I just thought I’d try here first as I guess clinics will be busy prioritising people with postponed treatments etc. Thanks for replying :)

My clinic let me use my NHS test results, but a friend of mine at another clinic had to pay and repeat. So definitely worth checking first. Good luck!

Depends on the tests - my clinic (Create) accepted the ones done by the NHS but the sperm ones seem to expire quicker so you might have to redo that one depending on timeframe

Most of the tests offered by the NHS for infertility aren't ones an IVF clinic would make you do anyway - mainly the NHS does day 21 ovulation and doesn't matter to a clinic if you ovulate or not since they artificially control it anyway

My clinic is letting me use NHS ones as they have been done in last 12 months. Any longer id have needed new ones x

My clinic (evewell) let me keep my NHS ones and asked me to send them in advance of our first consultation, which I was really impressed with. They then picked up on something in that first consultation just from looking at those results - something the NHS Dr hadn't picked up on for 3 years. I was blown away by this. They've asked me to repeat two blood tests to double check that issue & asked my husband to repeat the sperm analysis but that's all so far. They suggested I repeat the bloods with my gp so I don't have to pay. We'll do the sperm analysis with the clinic. I was impressed at them helping us keep costs down.