IVF Treatment Abroad: Infertility treatment and IVF clinics in Greece

Greece IVF is run by IVF Treatment Abroad and recommends a small number of specially selected clinics on the Greek mainland, two in Thessaloniki in Northern Greece and one in the capital, Athens.

Unlike a standard “Agency” which will just tell you where you should go, they ascertain your needs and requirements, suggesting drug regimes as well as potential tests needing to be carried out and where to get these done. They will provide a fertility treatment plan explaining what to do, when to do it and how to do it, arrange prescriptions for medications and will generally be available 7 days a week, 365 days a year to provide advice and support.

All types of IVF treatments are available and are tailored to your own individual requirements by IVF Treatment Abroad and the welcoming staff at the centres. The Selected clinics are of the smaller variety but have success rates as good as the larger centres around the world. They have English speaking personnel, purpose built facilities with cutting edge technology and up to the minute techniques.

There are no waiting lists and if you are looking to have egg donation, donors will have proven fertility i.e. they will either have children of their own or will have donated before which resulted in a positive pregnancy test for the recipient. This is also one donor to one recipient donation and donors are aged between 18 and 30 years old. Screening protocols are the same as in the UK not just from a medical perspective, but also from a psychological one.

Who are IVF Treatment Abroad

Ruth Pellow has been a Fertility Nurse Specialist since 1992 and is responsible for planning, co-ordinating and supporting you throughout your treatment cycle at one of the selected clinics. Although she is self employed, she is considered one of the team members of all the collaborating clinics and is in constant contact throughout the cycle with you the patient and the medical professionals at the selected centre.

Ruth along with her co-director and husband Simon, have personally visited all the centres to make sure that they meet their own high standards towards patient treatment, care and support.

Ruth has worked in Harley Street, London, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London and was based at a clinic on the Costa del Sol, Spain for nearly 5 years. It was this experience of working in a Spanish clinic that made Ruth and Simon decide that patients should have a wider choice of where they could go for treatment while at the same time having a UK trained fertility specialist guiding you through the process every step of the way.

Why go to Greece for IVF and fertility treatment?

As couples seeking treatment in the UK are only too aware, there are longer and longer waiting times at UK clinics to start a cycle, or to go into a second treatment if the first has been unsuccessful. Legislation passed in 2004 means that there is no longer anonymity for egg and sperm donors in the UK, which has led to a major shortage of these life giving elements, culminating in even longer waiting lists of up to 6 years.

For many, these waits are not only too long from an emotional perspective, but also from a biological one. There are no anonymity issues in Greece, which has highly regarded infertility clinics at which you can start your treatment NOW! These clinics have cutting edge technology, doctors and embryologists with a vast range of experience between them, and modern, purpose built facilities.

When it comes to using your own eggs and sperm, UK legislation states that the number of embryos transferred is restricted dependent on age and treatment undertaken. In Greece there is a more open attitude with clinics able to offer more flexible options, but still within legislated parameters.

IVF and fertility treatments available through Greece IVF

The following infertility treatments are offered by IVF Treatment Abroad's selected infertility clinics in Greece:

• Intrauterine insemination using husband or donor sperm (IUI)

• In vitro fertilisation (IVF)

• Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)

• Surgical sperm retrieval (PESA, TESA, MESA)

• Ovum (egg) donation

• Assisted hatching (AH)

• Blastocyst transfer

• Frozen embryo transfer

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Leading Greek IVF clinic with proven success rates can offer

• a full range of fertility treatments

• proven success rates above or equal to average rates for clinics in Europe

• no additional costs for using IVF Treatment Abroad

• one to one egg donation from proven donors

• English speaking personnel

• easy to get to from most UK airports

• no waiting times to start treatment

• donors that can fulfil most physical characteristics

• FX service ensuring better exchange rate

• flight, accommodation and chauffeur service (at additional cost)

The cost of treatments is comparable to, or less than most European clinics, for example:

• IVF using own eggs €3000

• Egg donation €5000

(Medications are always separate to the above prices and there might also be additional costs such as embryo freezing, blastocyst transfer and assisted hatching.)

How do I get IVF treatment in Greece?

IVF Treatment Abroad will ask you to provide your contact details, treatments required, and details of any previous fertility treatments you have had. Following a review, a course of treatment will be presented and appointments scheduled with SERUM that are convenient to you and that fit in with the treatment parameters.

Depending on what treatment you need, IVF Treatment Abroad will advise you whether you will need to make one or two trips, how long those trips need to be, and the period of time between them.

Click here for a list of analyses required prior to IVF or fertility treatment.

Contact details

Greece IVF

Tel: 0044 (0)208 133 3012 - all calls are charged at your UK local landline rate.

Email:      info@greeceivf.com 

Website: www.greeceivf.com  

Complete the callback request form, or 

the online treatment request registration form

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