 The clinic is based in an NHS hospital and provides integrated care to both NHS and private patients; the staff is internationally recognised for their work in treating with infertility.The clinic runs active programmes of egg-sharing, sperm donation and egg-donation.The current HFEA Director of the centre is Dr Sue Avery, a Clinical Embryologist who undertook her PhD with Professor Robert Edwards, the lead physiologist for managing the conception, pregnancy and birth in 1978 of the world's first IVF (or ‘test-tube’) baby.