IVF BABY GIVEN TO WRONG WOMAN ; Couple told of clinic's 'terrible mistake' - and then learn their last embryo has been aborted EXCLUSIVE [Scot Region]
Mail on Sunday › June 14, 2009
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A COUPLE'S last hopes of having another child have been shattered after an appalling blunder at an NHS fertility clinic led to their final usable embryo being implanted into the wrong patient.
The error was made by an overworked trainee doctor who failed to carry out strict checks that require all fertility procedures to be witnessed and verified.See the full content of this document
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IVF BABY GIVEN TO WRONG WOMAN ; Couple told of clinic's 'terrible mistake' - and then learn their last embryo has been aborted EXCLUSIVE [Scot Region]
The woman who mistakenly received the couple's embryo was told of the dev-astating error shortly after it occurred and agreed to have a termination. It was the only remaining embryo of nine the distraught couple had created using IVF.
The blunder at IVF Wales, part of Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust, was rated category A, the most serious level, by the Government's fertility regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA).An urgent HFEA investigation into the incident found that vital safety c...See the full content of this document
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