CREATE Fertility Egg Freezing Review

CREATE Fertility's St Paul's site recorded 258 egg storage cycles across 185 patients in 2023, placing it firmly in the middle of the ten clinics covered by verified activity (HFEA, 2026). It's part of the IVIRMA Global network, alongside IVI London elsewhere in this series, and one of ten clinics covered in our full London comparison guide.

The basics

CREATE Fertility was founded and, until stepping down as Medical Director on 1 July 2025, led for around 25 years by Professor Geeta Nargund, a pioneer of natural and mild-stimulation IVF who published some of the field's earliest research on cumulative conception rates in unstimulated IVF cycles and won the Robert Edwards Prize in 2014 (Wikipedia, n.d.). CREATE was acquired by IVIRMA Global before Professor Nargund's departure, placing it in the same wider ownership group as IVI London, also covered in this series. The clinic's St Paul's site is based at 150 Cheapside, in the City of London, and it also operates a Wimbledon site with its own separate HFEA licence and a considerably lower 2023 volume of 74 egg storage cycles, so the two shouldn't be treated as interchangeable.

What the HFEA says

• Inspection rating: 5/5, from an inspection dated 21 January 2020 (HFEA, n.d.).
• Licence status: Licensed until 22 July 2028 (HFEA, n.d.).
• Patient rating: 3.5/5, based on nine patient ratings, the lowest HFEA patient rating in this series alongside a moderate sample size (HFEA, n.d.).
• 2023 activity: 258 egg storage cycles across 185 patients at the St Paul's site (HFEA, 2026).

Its Google rating is 3.8/5 from 316 reviews, a somewhat higher figure than its HFEA patient rating but still on the lower end among the clinics in this series.

How it compares in this series

CREATE Fertility's St Paul's site ranks sixth by verified 2023 activity among the ten clinics in our comparison guide, and its 3.5/5 HFEA patient rating is the lowest recorded rating in the series alongside Harley Street Fertility Clinic's equal score, though both are drawn from small samples. Its combined base-plus-support pricing, working out to roughly £4,550 before medication, is closer to the higher end of the range than its £3,195 headline figure alone suggests, more comparable to London Women's Clinic's £6,100-plus average total than to Aria Fertility's or CRGH's lower all-in costs, even though CREATE's individual headline number looks competitive at first glance.

What it actually costs

CREATE's own pricing splits the cycle into a base fee and a support package rather than one all-in figure (CREATE Fertility, n.d.). The core egg freezing cycle costs £3,195, covering monitoring scans, clinical advice, egg collection, egg freezing and a follow-up consultation. On top of that, the clinic's Support Package costs £1,355, covering screening tests, monitoring bloodwork, counselling, sedation and the HFEA fee, bringing the combined subtotal to £4,550 before medication. Annual storage is £395, and medication costs vary by individual protocol. This structure means the true starting cost is meaningfully higher than the £3,195 headline figure alone suggests, worth factoring in alongside our full cost breakdown across the UK market.

Track record and things to check

Check which CREATE Fertility site you're being quoted for. The Wimbledon site's considerably lower 2023 volume (74 cycles against 258 at St Paul's) suggests a genuinely different scale of operation, even under the same clinic name and ownership.

The clinic's founding identity is closely tied to mild-stimulation IVF, an approach using lower medication doses than conventional IVF protocols, developed and championed publicly by Professor Nargund over more than two decades. Whether or not that approach is used for egg freezing specifically (rather than IVF) is worth asking about directly at consultation, since the two are not automatically the same protocol.

Leadership has recently changed. Professor Nargund's departure as Medical Director in July 2025, following the clinic's earlier acquisition by IVIRMA Global, is recent enough that it may be worth asking how continuity of clinical approach and staff has been managed since, and whether the clinical team that built the clinic's reputation for mild stimulation is still substantially in place.

As with any clinic, live birth rates after egg freezing depend heavily on age at the time of freezing, a factor established in the broader academic literature and independent of any individual clinic's stimulation protocol (Cil, Bang and Oktay, 2013).

Questions worth asking this clinic specifically

• Is a mild-stimulation protocol actually used for egg freezing at this clinic, or only for IVF, and what does that mean for expected egg yield per cycle?
• What has changed clinically or operationally since Professor Nargund's departure and the IVIRMA Global acquisition?
• Given the split base-fee-plus-support-package pricing, what is the realistic all-in total before medication, and how does that compare with a single all-inclusive quote elsewhere?
• Is my treatment at the St Paul's site specifically, and does that affect anything if I'd otherwise consider the Wimbledon site instead?

Who this might suit

CREATE may suit patients specifically interested in a mild-stimulation approach and the clinical philosophy associated with its founder, though it's worth confirming directly how that translates to egg freezing protocols specifically, since mild stimulation is more established as an IVF approach than as an egg-freezing one. Its City of London location, some distance from the Marylebone and Harley Street cluster where most other clinics in this series are based, may also be a practical factor if you work in or near the City. Given the recent change in medical leadership and the split base-plus-support pricing structure, this is a clinic worth a particularly thorough consultation before committing, both on continuity of care and on the realistic all-in cost.

This article is general information, not a personal recommendation of this or any clinic. Prices, ratings, activity volumes and inspection outcomes change; always confirm current figures directly with the clinic and via the HFEA's own clinic-search tool before booking.