An IVF baby was born with cystic fibrosis after a doctor failed to properly read the results of its parents’ screening tests.
The first-known ‘grade A’ incident, which is the most severe, took place after a doctor did not sign or input the results into the patients’ medical records, resulting in them not being identified as carriers of the condition, according to a Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) report.
Other ‘areas for concern’ include the number of adverse events as a result of IVF increasing from 497 in 2015 to 540 last year, the report found.
Aside from the one grade A incident in 2016, 176 were grade B and 325 grade C, the findings add.
More than 76,000 IVF cycles were carried out in 119 licensed fertility clinics across the UK between 2016 and 2017.
