The Leicester Fertility Centre Assisted Conception Unit was established in 1988. Originally a specialist team of seven staffed the Centre, this has now increased to a much larger team of eighteen.

The department has developed from offering non licensed treatments to providing a complete range of licensed infertility treatments to include in vitro fertilisation (IVF), Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI), surgical retrieval of sperm, egg donation, egg sharing, donor insemination (DI) and intrauterine insemination (IUI).

In 1996 the department moved to purpose-designed, patient friendly facilities based on the ground floor of the Kensington Building at the Leicester Royal Infirmary. We have our own sperm donor bank and a large sperm-freezing programme for oncology patients.

The regional Andrology service is also based at the Leicester Fertility Centre; a professional team able to offer service users immediate clinical advice are available five days a week.

Both NHS and private patients are treated.

The Centre is able to offer individually tailored and very personal treatment as a package at a competitive fixed cost.

The Centre is located in purpose-designed premises on the ground floor of the Kensington Building in the Women's Hospital of the Leicester Royal Infirmary NHS Trust. The ground floor location of the Centre allows for disabled access. As part of the University Hospitals of Leicester all necessary specialist back-up services can be provided.