A register nobody reads, written out in sentences

Where the data comes from

Every clinic on this site is on the National ART & Surrogacy Registry, published by the Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. We read it on 11 November 2026 and found 4,767 clinics across 27 states and union territories.

We restate these fields without edit: name, address, state, email, registration number, and the link to the scanned certificate. Where a value is empty in the register, it is empty here.

How the certificates are read

The register publishes a certificate link for every clinic. There are 4,767 of them, in three shapes: 4,125 PDFs, 536 image scans, and 106 whose link returns a 404. We ran text recognition over the PDFs: 4,644 yielded readable text, 1,744 gave us a validity year, and 906 of those the exact day. Where the scan was too poor, the page falls back to the registration year and says the date is not published.

The level is the one thing we did not originally take from the scans, because the Form 3 template prints “Level 1 / Level 2” with one option struck out by hand, and text recognition cannot see a strike-through. The rule now: the registration number wins; where it carries no level, the certificate is read only if its text names a single level on a labelled line (Type of Facility, or the certificate heading), and refused outright if both levels appear anywhere. That recovered a level for 1,093 clinics. For the other 352, which is where the scan was unreadable or printed both options, we say “not stated”.

Two things we still do not take from the scans:

• Anything we cannot see. Names of doctors, bed counts and equipment are not in this register, so they are not on these pages.

What we will not do

• We do not rate clinics. There is no score, no star, no ranking. The register does not measure quality and neither can we.
• We do not take money from clinics. No listing fee, no paid placement, no enquiry form. There is no way for a clinic to move up, appear, or be removed.
• We do not infer. If the register does not say a clinic is Level 2, we do not assume it from the word “IVF” in its name. IVF means an egg fertilised outside the body, and only a Level 2 licence covers it.
• We do not publish allegations. A user review of a clinic is a libel risk and a patient's private medical history, so there is no review section.

Corrections

If the register is wrong, because a clinic has closed, moved, changed level or been deregistered, tell us and we will look it up. Corrections are shown beside the official line, never in place of it, so you can always see what the government published and what someone else says.

If you are a clinic and something here is factually wrong, write to us with the certificate or the register entry and we will correct it. If you would like your entry removed, we will not do that. It is a public record. We will publish your response on the page.

Privacy

There are no accounts, no cookies for tracking, no analytics scripts and no forms that collect anything. The only third-party request is to our own font files. Searches happen in your browser and are never sent to us.

Who runs this

IVF Check is an independent public-interest project. It is not affiliated with the Department of Health Research, the National ART & Surrogacy Board, or any clinic. It carries no advertising.