Harley Street Fertility Clinic Egg Freezing Review

Harley Street Fertility Clinic, at 134 Harley Street, recorded 154 egg storage cycles across 116 patients in 2023, the tenth-highest verified volume among London's highest-activity clinics that year and the final clinic in our series (HFEA, 2026). It's one of ten clinics covered in our full London comparison guide.

The basics

Harley Street Fertility Clinic has operated from its current site since 2010 and has held its HFEA licence since 2014 (HFEA, n.d.; Harley Street Fertility Clinic, n.d.-a). The clinic describes its consultant team as bringing over 150 years of combined fertility experience, and it also operates an egg-share donor programme, similar in concept to London Women's Clinic's Freeze and Share scheme covered elsewhere in this series, though the two clinics' specific terms shouldn't be assumed to match.

What the HFEA says

• Inspection rating: 4/5, from an inspection dated 10 December 2019, the oldest inspection date of any clinic in this series (HFEA, n.d.).
• Licence status: Licensed until 22 July 2027 (HFEA, n.d.).
• Patient rating: 3.5/5, based on six patient ratings (HFEA, n.d.).
• 2023 activity: 154 egg storage cycles across 116 patients (HFEA, 2026).

Its Google rating, from a much larger sample of 256 reviews, is 4.1/5, notably higher than its own HFEA patient rating.

How it compares in this series

Harley Street Fertility Clinic ranks tenth by verified 2023 activity among the clinics covered in our comparison guide, the lowest volume in the series, though still a substantial 154 cycles. Its 4/5 HFEA inspection rating is joint-lowest alongside Guy's and St Thomas', and its December 2019 inspection date is the oldest of any clinic covered here. Its 4.1/5 Google rating, however, sits comfortably mid-range, ahead of both Guy's and St Thomas' and CREATE Fertility's scores, suggesting a more positive current picture from patients than the older inspection date alone might otherwise imply.

What it actually costs

A note on this one: an earlier version of our comparison guide sourced this clinic's price from a third-party clinic-comparison site rather than the clinic's own current price list. Checking directly against the clinic's own published pricing, the figure is meaningfully different and more complete than that earlier estimate, a useful reminder that third-party comparison sites can lag behind a clinic's own current price list. Single-cycle egg freezing is £3,900, covering the pre-treatment and consent consultation, monitoring scans and blood tests during stimulation, egg collection under sedation, egg freezing by vitrification, a post-collection check-up scan, and a review consultation (Harley Street Fertility Clinic, n.d.-b). A three-cycle package is available for £9,990. Annual storage is £360 for up to 30 eggs (or the equivalent in embryos or sperm vials); additional quantities require a separate storage contract at the same rate. Patients participating in the clinic's egg-share donor programme can access egg freezing at no charge. For how this compares across the market once medication is added, see our full cost breakdown.

Track record and things to check

This clinic has the oldest current HFEA inspection of any clinic in this series, dated December 2019. A 4/5 rating from an inspection that old carries meaningfully less immediate weight than a recent one; check the HFEA's own clinic-search tool directly for anything more current before booking.

The gap between its HFEA patient rating and its Google rating is worth noting. A 3.5/5 HFEA score from six responses sits below a 4.1/5 Google score from 256 reviews, a much larger sample. Given how small the HFEA sample is here, the Google figure may be the more statistically useful signal for this particular clinic, though it measures a different, unaudited thing.

Its egg-share programme is worth understanding fully before opting in. Offering egg freezing free of charge in exchange for donating eggs is a meaningfully different arrangement from paying for your own cycle, with its own eligibility criteria and implications for what happens to the donated eggs.

As with any clinic in this series, live birth outcomes after egg freezing depend heavily on the age at which eggs are frozen, a factor established in the broader academic literature independent of any individual clinic (Cil, Bang and Oktay, 2013). That's worth bearing in mind regardless of which pricing tier or package structure a clinic offers, since no combination of scans, sedation or vitrification technique changes what age itself contributes to the outcome.

Questions worth asking this clinic specifically

• Has the clinic had a more recent HFEA inspection since the December 2019 rating shown here, and if not, when is the next one due?
• Given the HFEA sample of only six ratings, can I see more detailed or verified patient feedback, or speak to recent patients directly?
• How does the egg-share programme's eligibility criteria work, and what happens to the eggs I'd be donating?
• Is the £3,900 single-cycle price current as of my consultation, and what does the three-cycle package actually save compared with paying per cycle?

Who this might suit

This clinic's now-confirmed, more complete pricing structure and larger Google review base may make it a reasonable option for cost-conscious patients, particularly those interested in the egg-share route. Its Harley Street address puts it in the same immediate cluster as The Evewell and close to London Women's Clinic's flagship site, both covered elsewhere in this series, which may suit patients planning to compare several clinics without much travel. Given its older current inspection date, it's worth checking for a more recent HFEA rating directly, and reading the Google reviews as your primary patient-experience signal given the very small HFEA sample, rather than treating either figure in isolation.

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.