HFEA publishes strategy for 2025-2028

We want to ensure a well-regulated fertility sector that is trusted by patients and the wider public, that we provide information that is helpful for patients in making treatment choices, and that biosciences that lead to innovations in treatment can flourish within an ethical framework.

Our vision is: Regulating for confidence

• Safe treatment
• Right information
• Supported innovation

Julia Chain, Chair of the HFEA, said:

“There’s no doubt that the UK fertility landscape is changing at a rapid pace and that this has an impact on patients making decisions about their treatment, clinics providing safe and effective treatment, and us ensuring the sector is well-regulated. That’s why we’ve set out two key themes in our new strategy: regulating a changing environment and supporting scientific and medical innovation.

“Patients have always been, and remain, at the heart of what we do. We will continue to speak up for them on issues that affect their treatment journey and want to update our powers to allow us to effectively regulate the modern fertility sector.

“The final year of this strategy will coincide with the 50^th anniversary of the first baby born from IVF. The fertility sector today is very different from the one that existed when the HFEA was set up in 1991. Therefore, we want to ensure the safe regulation of the range of new and technologies and scientific developments that are making their way into the fertility sector.

“We will work with clinic staff, our patient organisation stakeholders and professional bodies, over the next three years as we undertake this programme of work to achieve our vision of ‘regulating for confidence’ and improving fertility services for those seeking a longed-for family.”

To read the HFEA’s strategy for 2025-2028 click here.