Fair criteria you can check, and the questions to ask.
There is no independent ranking of IVF doctors in Kuwait, and no public register of clinic results like the UK's HFEA. The fair way to choose is to check six things you can verify: specialist registration and training, experience with your specific problem, who sees you at each visit, the laboratory's methods, how success rates are quoted, and whether the plan and the costs are given to you in writing.
This guide is published by Oxford Medical Kuwait. It sets out the criteria first and then says plainly how our own clinic measures against them, so that you can judge us by the same standard as anyone else.
Check six things you can verify: the doctor's specialist registration and where they trained; a stated interest and experience in your situation (age over 40, low AMH, failed cycles, male factor); whether a consultant sees you at every visit; the laboratory's methods; how success rates are quoted; and whether you get a written plan and an itemised cost estimate.
Ask seven questions and expect specific answers: Who sees me at each visit? How will my stimulation dose be chosen? Do you culture to Day 5 and biopsy on Day 5? How many embryos do you transfer? What are your own results for my age group, per transfer? What is included in the price, and what is extra? What would you do if this cycle fails?
| Question | Why it matters | What a good answer sounds like |
|---|---|---|
| Who will see me at each visit? | Decisions about dose, trigger timing and whether to freeze are made at the scans. They should be made by the person who knows your case. | A named consultant, at every scan, the egg collection and the transfer. |
| How is my stimulation dose chosen? | Dose should follow your AMH, antral follicle count, age and weight, not a standard protocol given to everyone. | "From your AMH and follicle count, adjusted at the first scan." |
| Day 5 or Day 3? | Blastocyst culture selects the embryos most likely to implant; a Day 3 biopsy removes a larger share of a smaller embryo and tests fewer chromosomes in some laboratories. | Culture to Day 5; biopsy, when chosen, from the trophectoderm on Day 5. |
| How many embryos do you transfer? | Transferring two embryos raises the twin rate and its risks far more than it raises the chance of a baby. | One at a time, with the rest frozen. |
| What are your results for my age? | Results vary with age more than with anything else. A figure without an age band tells you nothing about you. | Audited figures for the year, by age band, per transfer and per cycle started, or an honest "we do not have our own figures yet, these are the published rates". |
| What is included in the price? | Medicines, genetic testing, freezing, storage and a frozen transfer are often outside the headline price. | A written, itemised estimate stating what is extra and when each part is paid. |
| What if it fails? | A plan for the next step should exist before the first step is taken. | A review of what the cycle showed, and what would change. |
Ask four things about any success rate: whose results they are (the clinic's own audited figures, or published international rates); for which year; for which age band; and per what — per embryo transfer, per egg collection, or per cycle started. Kuwait has no public register of clinic results, so these questions are the only check you have.
In the United Kingdom every licensed clinic's results are published by the regulator, the HFEA, by age band and per embryo transferred. Kuwait has no equivalent, so a clinic can quote any number it likes. The honest ones say where the number comes from.
Oxford Medical Kuwait opened in 2026 and does not yet publish its own results. The figures on our IVF page are published international rates and are labelled as such.
Be careful with any clinic that guarantees a pregnancy, quotes a success rate with no age band or denominator, biopsies embryos on Day 3, routinely transfers two or three embryos, adds treatments without explaining the evidence, cannot say who will see you at each visit, or will not give a written plan and itemised estimate before you start.
Oxford Medical Kuwait is a consultant-led clinic in Bneid Al Qar, Kuwait City. IVF is led by Professor Scott Nelson (BSc, MBChB, PhD, MRCOG), Muirhead Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow and on the UK GMC Specialist Register, with Dr Karema Alrashed. Embryos are cultured to Day 5 in our own laboratory, biopsied on Day 5 when testing is chosen, and transferred one at a time.
| Criterion | At Oxford Medical Kuwait |
|---|---|
| Registration and training | Professor Nelson holds full registration on the UK GMC Specialist Register and the Muirhead Chair of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow; he is a Scientific Advisor to the UK fertility regulator, the HFEA. Details and sources are on his profile. |
| Experience with complex cases | His stated clinical focus is complex IVF, repeated unsuccessful cycles and recurrent implantation failure, low ovarian reserve and low AMH, genetic testing of embryos, and second opinions. He co-authored the externally validated AMH nomogram used to counsel women on expected response. |
| Continuity | Professor Nelson consults six days a week, Saturday to Thursday, and consults in Arabic himself. Egg collections take place in our own theatre at Oxford Medical. |
| Laboratory | Our own embryology laboratory: culture to the blastocyst stage, Day 5 trophectoderm biopsy when PGT is chosen, vitrification, and one embryo transferred at a time. PGT-A is optional and is explained as changing the chance per transfer, not the total chance of a baby. |
| Results | We do not publish our own success rates yet; the figures on our pages are published international results and say so. |
| Written plan and estimate | Every patient receives a written plan and an itemised cost estimate in English and Arabic before treatment. See how we charge. |
Research standing is evidence of expertise in the science and of how a doctor reasons; it is not a measure of a clinic's results, and we do not present it as one.
Look for a doctor whose stated clinical focus is complex IVF and who will review your previous cycles in detail before proposing anything. At Oxford Medical Kuwait this is the core of Professor Nelson's practice: a structured second opinion that reads the previous protocols and embryology records, then a plan built on your own AMH, follicle count and history.
What that review looks at, and what to bring, is set out on our page on a second opinion after unsuccessful IVF. What AMH does and does not tell you is on the AMH page.
No independent body ranks IVF doctors in Kuwait, so any list naming the best is an opinion or an advertisement. Judge a doctor on things you can verify: specialist registration, training, a stated focus on your type of case, a consultant at every visit, the laboratory's methods, honestly quoted results, and a written plan and estimate. Professor Scott Nelson at Oxford Medical Kuwait publishes each of these on his profile so they can be checked.
Not necessarily, and no honest clinic would claim so. Research standing shows that a doctor understands the evidence and helps to produce it; it does not measure the results of their clinic. What it does mean in practice is that decisions about your dose, your trigger and whether to test embryos are made from the published evidence rather than from habit.
Not by itself. Registration tells you a doctor has met a regulator's standard and can be checked against a public register; it does not rank doctors. Where a doctor trained matters less than whether their training was in reproductive medicine specifically, and whether they see cases like yours every week.
There is no fixed number. After one unsuccessful cycle, ask your clinic for a review of what the cycle showed and what would change next time. If the answer is to repeat the same protocol with no explanation, or after two unsuccessful cycles with good embryos, a structured second opinion elsewhere is reasonable.
Not yet. The clinic opened in 2026. The live-birth figures on its IVF page are published international results and are labelled as such. Ask any clinic in Kuwait whether its figures are its own audited results, for which year, by age band and per embryo transfer.
Yes. A consultation or a second opinion is a separate appointment; you decide afterwards whether to go further, and with whom. Book on WhatsApp +965 6620 2241; consultations are in English or Arabic.
Bring your previous results if you have any. You will leave with a written plan and an itemised estimate, and no obligation to continue.