The HFEA has now announced the results of its review on payment and expenses for egg and sperm donors. Both egg and sperm donors will receive a fixed sum of money: sperm donors will receive £35 per visit and egg donors, a sum of £750 per cycle of donation. The fees are intended to cover …
Tag Archive: payment
Oct
17
Altruism and money
A report on the ethics of donation from the Nuffield Council for Bioethics has recommended that donors should be fully reimbursed for loss of earnings. Currently there is a cap on the sum that can be claimed back for expenses which includes childcare costs, travel and loss of earnings. This has meant that some donors …
Oct
10
The land of the free?
The US is known for paying donors, and this is usually given as the main reason US fertility clinics have no shortage. But with both donors and recipients looking for a different experience of creating and raising a child, free sperm donation is growing in popularity. Some couples cannot afford the cost of fertility treatment …
Oct
03
‘A kind of donor godfather’: donor recruitment and the London Sperm Bank
Many said in 2005 that removing donor anonymity would mean donor numbers would drop and the only way to prevent this was payment. Six years on, one London clinic is proving that isn’t true. In March 2010 the London Sperm Bank launched a new sperm donor recruitment campaign which took a different approach. They decided …
Apr
25
Cut red tape, improve donor care
As a headline issue in the recent HFEA consultation, payment of donors is high on the agenda. But there’s one payment-related issue some clinics could sort out that would make life easier for donors: paying expenses during treatment. Donors have to attend clinics a number of times before their treatment starts, for tests and counselling. …