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Lawsuit against TFP GCRM (Glasgow)

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Grossnegligence · 16/05/2023 17:49

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/15/ivf-clinic-whistleblower-wrongfully-sacked-tribunal/

Please read this article about GCRM. Think twice before you sign up for treatment there.

https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/ms-a-henderson-v-gcrm-ltd-and-others-4102334-slash-2022
For those who do not have time to read all 82 pages, let me summarise main points for you.

-Lab was critically understaffed and unsafe
-Errors were made including binning eggs, using wrong media, using expired media, not topping up tanks with patients' material. Success rates were poor.
-Business manager was pushing for more patients (60% instead of 35%) to have invasive ICSI as it was more profitable. Without clinical indications.
-Lab manager was reporting all the problems but she was being ignored. She was asking for the workload to be reduced but instead, business manager was asking for it to be increased for profits.

This needs to become common knowledge in Scotland.

IVF clinic whistleblower wrongfully sacked for complaining patients were being misled

Tribunal rules against TFP GCRM Glasgow Fertility Clinic, which is Scotland's only private fertility clinic

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/15/ivf-clinic-whistleblower-wrongfully-sacked-tribunal

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Delshan123 · 21/06/2025 02:07

KJ00 · 29/12/2023 14:09

@Kitty12345678 I do agree with PP.
Unfortunately first rounds are exactly this, trial and error. You can't get it exactly right first time. I highly doubt they set you up to fail, especially in nhs rounds. How would that benefit them. The thing is nobody knows how you'll respond first time if you've never done ivf. Ivf costs alot of money and icsi costs more. I think its completely normal to be angry when it dosent go right and be looking for faults but as others have said
This isn't standard in every clinic.
Both myself and my sister have had ivf/ icsi . My sister has low egg resevere when she did ivf at 36. Icsi was never recommended to her and she now has 2 dds. Having low count dosent mean you can't get pregnant via ivf. Yes if you have icsi then there's more chance that few number of eggs might fertilise but icsi is not the go to. Many women with low counts have ivf , never icsi. If your first round via ivf was not resulting in suffient fertilised eggs then yes icsi may be recommended then.
I have pcos amh was 62 and was deemed to be a high responder and there was concern over ohss , I'm 38 and I collected only 3 eggs. To my complete shock as i was lead to believe i was a risk to over responding. just shows nobody can know how your going to respond.
We did have icsi but only because my dh has low round and morphology .

@KJ00 sorry I know this is quite an old post but just wondering how this ended up for you? I’m in a similar boat where I had super high AMH and was told they’d get ‘at LEAST 30-40’ eggs from me and had to be really careful not to overstimulate but we only ended up getting 12. I know that’s a good number but they seemed to be expecting much more. 11 of them fertilised and 11 made it to day 3 but sadly none of them made it to day 5/6. We are just about to start next cycle but I’m worried they’ll say just to do the same thing again as their review letter said ‘it worked’ from their point of view :-/ I just feel doing the same thing again and expecting a different result might not be the best plan? I’m also struggling a little with how, before any stimulation I had almost 30 follicles (at initial scan) yet after stimulation only produced 12 eggs. Struggling to find answers online either. We have a meeting with consultant next week so hopefully get some more answers bjt im not sure they can provide the answers we’d like.

keen to hear more about your experience if you’re happy to share? X

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