Official opening for the Shropshire and Mid Wales Fertility Centre

13 November 2018

Staff past and present attended the official opening of The Shropshire and Mid Wales Fertility Centre – along with some of the families who have been helped by the clinic over the last 15 years.

The centre, which is one of the top IVF clinics in the country, relocated from The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) to the Severn Fields Health Village in Shrewsbury earlier this year.

On Saturday (10 November), the Mayor of Shrewsbury, Councillor Peter Nutting, unveiled a plaque and helped to plant a tree in the grounds of the health village to celebrate the official opening of the centre, which is run by SaTH.

It marked a new chapter for The Shropshire and Mid Wales Fertility Centre which first started delivering IVF in Shropshire in 2003. Since then it has gone on to help create more than 1,500 families – some of whom attended Saturday’s official opening.

Jason Kasraie, Consultant Clinical Embryologist and Andrologist, and Head of Fertility Services at SaTH, said: “Saturday was a very special day for The Shropshire and Mid Wales Fertility Centre as it marked the start of a new chapter for us.

“We are all very proud of the service that we offer and our success rates are the highest in the West Midlands. Our new state-of-art facilities will help us to improve those success rates even further, which is great news for our patients.

“It was wonderful to be able to catch up with some of the couples that we have been able to help over the years, and we were delighted to see so many families come along to support us on Saturday.

“We would also like to thank the Mayor of Shrewsbury, Councillor Peter Nutting, and Assura, which manages the Severn Fields Health Village, for all their help in making the event a real success – and all those that joined us – it was a very special day.”

The new facility in Sundorne is one of the most modern in the NHS. It is an NHS Assisted Conception Centre delivering the latest assisted conception methods and technology to both NHS and private patients. As well as IVF (In Vitro Fertilisation), that includes ICSI (Intra-cytoplasmic Sperm Injection), IUI (Intra-Uterine Insemination), Egg Donation and FET (Frozen Embryo Transfer).

The new department now consists of a larger secure admin area; an outpatient and diagnostics area, and a clinical hub which features state-of-the-art laboratories, treatment rooms and recovery area.

The centre was designed by the multi-professional fertility team to provide scope for more advanced fertility treatments, such as pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, to be offered in the future.