IVI consultancies

Facilities and equipments:

Provided by the clinic

Objective:

The Main goal of this part is to offer external consultancy services to ART units worldwide in Andrology and Embryology laboratories, by IVI experts: highly specialized professionals with a wide IVF running and setup experience, able to move for a period to the laboratories to be evaluated and counselled. Troubleshooting, QC&QA, Performance auditing, and IVF labs design are some of the covered areas.

Duration ranges:

Recommended consultancy time described below.

Fees:

Described below, not including travel expenses

Capacity:

8-10 IVI experts, at a rate of 4-5 consultancies per year.

We offer four different audits’ modules:

'Follow Up' Audit

After the embryology training, a senior embryologist (Auditor) makes a follow up visit to check the adaptation of the trainee, also helping and supporting the first IVF series. One week in situ.

Fees per week:

7.500 €

'IVF SET UP & START OFF' AUDIT

Designed for advising a clinic constructed from scratch with our experience (Auditors)

Set up (at distance):

• a. Lab design
• b. Construction materials
• c. Equipment selection

Fees:

10.000 €

Start off (in situ):

1-2 weeks stay of a senior embryologist to check lab conditions and supervise the first cycles.

Fees per week:

10.000 € per week

'Basic quality inspection' audit

It consists in a basic inspection of the IVF lab including:

Lab control

• Environment
• Equipment
• Media and other products

Protocol control

• Quality of standard procedures
• Personnel organization

Programme control

• General indicators (pregnancy, implantation, live birth rates,...)
• Procedural indicators (fertilization rates, cleavage rates, embryo scores,...)
• Efficiency indicators (time lags, incident reports,...)

Much of this audit depends on the quality of the clinics. (Quality auditors)
After a 3 day visit and the data analysis a written report is presented to the clinic. Follow up is performed 3, 6 and 12 months after visit.

Fees per visit:

10.000 €

'Advanced quality management' audit

It is an extension of the previous audit in two more days, where different preventive measures are introduced to help starting a successful total quality management. The different issues are introduced and follow up is revised 3, 6 and 12 months after visit. Quality auditors.

• a. Risk management (a priori analysis)
• b. Troubleshooting (a posteriori analysis)
• c. Staff control and management
• d. Data management
• e. Embryo policy
• f. Accreditation

Fees per week:

15.000 €

Auditor: highly experienced andrologist/embryologist with at least 5 years of clinical senior experience.
Quality auditor: highly experienced andrologist/embryologist with total quality management experience.