Donation Process FAQs

From your very first appointment to egg collection it can take up to three months. The process takes this amount of time as you will be required to undergo various screening tests, medical history checks and counselling sessions before we can accept you as a donor at Egg Donors UK. Once you're accepted, and you have been registered with the HFEA, it can take up to three weeks to stimulate your ovaries using daily injections to produce mature eggs. During this time, you will attend a local centre for ultrasound scans, blood tests and screening. 

Appointments will be scheduled to fit in with your plans. Once you have been selected by a patient who needs donor eggs for their treatment, the donation process from this point is carefully timed which means that you will be asked to come to our clinic, at specific times on specific days.

Between six and seven. These include your virtual appointments. We are here to support you through every stage while you are part of our donation programme, and we ask every donor to talk to our counsellors (this is a virtual appointment). This appointment will be followed by a virtual consultation with the doctor. You will normally have three or four monitoring appointments and then one visit for egg collection.

If you are following our local programme, you will have most appointments at one of our local centres and will be asked to make the trip to Manchester for specialist appointments only. If your local centre is Manchester, all appointments will be carried out at our main clinic.

Virtual Appointment:

• Doctor's consultation
• Counselling session

Local Centre:

• Initial ultrasound scan
• Initial blood tests 
• Viral screening
• Day 7-9 monitoring scans

Manchester Clinic:

• Further monitoring scan(s)
• Egg collection

The reason donors have to visit the main clinic in Manchester is that it regulated with HFEA to carry out procedures such as egg collection.

All parts of the cycle are carried out on an outpatient basis, which does not require you to stay overnight.

Yes. Under the 10 family limit rule, any single egg donor can only create a maximum of 10 families from her eggs. We recommend a maximum donation of six cycles only.

Being an egg donor with Egg Donors UK is one of the most fulfilling and rewarding things you can do. You can help to change someone’s life by being amazing. We would like to thank you for your interest in our FAQs, and for taking the time to consider giving the gift of life and becoming an egg donor.

If you would like to know more and feel that being an egg donor is right for you then you can apply online here to start off your egg donor application.

Egg donation is a process where a woman donates her eggs to help another woman conceive a child. It often involves hormonal stimulation to produce multiple eggs, which are then retrieved and fertilised in a lab.

Typically, egg donors are healthy women between the ages of 18 and 35, with no history of genetic diseases.

We conduct your initial consultations, blood tests, health checks, and scans at a local centres so you only need to travel to our central treatment hub in Manchester for specialist appointments. This means less travel and more convenience for you. Here's exactly what you can undergo at each:

Virtual Appointment:

• Doctor's consultation
• Counselling session

Local Centre:

• Initial ultrasound scan
• Initial blood tests 
• Viral screening
• Day 7-9 monitoring scans

Manchester Clinic:

• Further monitoring scan(s)
• Egg collection

The reason donors have to visit the main clinic in Manchester is that it regulated with HFEA to carry out procedures such as egg collection.