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CRGH City? Or using satellite clinics?

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Hopeislost · 14/03/2023 15:32

Has anyone used CRGH City? Interested to know whether there is much of a difference between that and the main CRGH? Or have you used other satellite clinics and what was your experience?

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clhiu · 15/03/2023 19:53

Hello OP.
I originally registered with CRGH because aside from their success rates, I saw they had a satellite clinic in Canterbury, being based in Kent, that was much more convenient than Central London and this is what I can tell you about that clinic.
All you can have done there are blood tests, drop urine samples and have tracking scans, literally nothing else.
The bloods and urine still have to be shipped out to London for testing so they only have appointments for that before 10am Monday to Friday.
There is only one doctor who works at that branch who does the tracking scans (no sonographers) and she’s only available till 9am so tracking scans can also only happen early in the morning Monday to Friday.
I can see they opened a third satellite in Farringdon and cannot speak for that setup, but although it’s been really handy to be able to have some of the bloods and tracking scans close by, I still had to attend the main clinic a lot.
The Canterbury clinic will not store any samples of any kinds, will not take sperm samples (they can only be done in London) or store eggs, sperm or embryo. They don’t do any theatre procedures there, nor embryo transfers, nor pregnancy scans so it’s really limited, but can be handy when you need scanning or bloods every other day.
I hope this helps!

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