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The biggest fertility centre in the UK has unveiled a new, state-of-the-art extension.

 

The family of the centre’s founder – pioneering fertility doctor Jon Hewitt – were present at the launch of the new extension. Hewitt established the specialist clinic in 1989 but sadly died of lung cancer aged 47 in 2002. Jon’s wife Jenny said she was delighted that the new extension would “allow his good work changing lives to continue.” Jon had previously worked at the UK’s first ever fertility clinic – Bourn Hall in Cambridgeshire. It was on moving to Liverpool in 1985 to work as a consultant at the Royal Liverpool Hospital that Hewitt realised there was the need for designated fertility clinics to be set up across the UK and went about creating the first in the North West of England. The pioneering Hewitt Centre has come a long way since its formation. Back in 1989, a team of three doctors carried out 100 cycles of IVF every year at the Royal Liverpool Hospital.  Now over 2,000 treatments are performed and the Hewitt Centre employs over 75 members of staff.

The new extension cements the Hewitt Centre’s status as the busiest provider of NHS fertility services in the country, and speaking at its launch, Director of Clinic Charles Kingsland commented: “I am delighted with the outcome and the work done over the last three years to deliver such a magnificent facility. It is such a relaxed, comfortable atmosphere, and that is what we wanted to create.”