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 4,765 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 each clinic's certificate as a scanned image inside a PDF, not as data. We ran text recognition over 4,112 of them. For 1,846 we could read a validity year, and for 831 of those the exact day as well. Where the scan was too poor, the page falls back to the registration year and says the date is not published.

Two things we deliberately do not take from the scans:

• The level. The certificate is a printed form reading “Level 1 / Level 2” with one option struck out by hand. Text recognition cannot see a strike-through, so we take the level from the registration number instead, and where the number does not carry it we say “not stated”. That is why 1,461 clinics show no level.
• 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• We do not publish allegations.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.