IVF Blog

Running a school laboratory, a couple of decades ago was easy. It didn’t really matter if the pupils’ equipment was faulty, as the pupils’ experiments were very much a [...]

Laboratory design and risk reduction When we are in workplace environments, we inwardly groan when we hear the words health and safety. But should we? The health and safety culture initially grew [...]

Standards and staffing Risk is inherent in IVF at every stage of the process of artificially enhancing human reproduction by use of technology. And even in a natural environment conception, [...]

If you base your perception of human progress on what you hear in the news, you would think that it takes place in quantum leaps. However, not all human progress takes place in leaps and bounds. [...]

Long before Six Sigma and ISO 9000, and even before Relationship Marketing, we had Total Quality Management (TQM). This process-management philosophy was based on tried-and-tested tools and [...]

The IVF team Fertility nursing offers a diverse and challenging working environment. The work of a fertility nurse is varied and takes in many disciplines and skills. The role is societal in [...]

Training, induction and appraisals In last weeks blog I covered aspects of staff recruitment,  recruitment advertising and interview processes. Following on from that, I’d like to focus on [...]

Part 1: recruitment, interviewing and vetting The issue of people management in an IVF setting is far too broad to be covered in a blog! But, what we can do is give a simplistic overview of the [...]

The ethics of IVF The ethics of medicine is based around four key tenets or moral principles: Autonomy: the patient’s right to choose their treatment Beneficence: the imperative of the [...]