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UK patients have had their fertility treatment disrupted after a Portuguese fertility clinic was declared insolvent.
Ovom Care, based in Cascais near Lisbon, was founded in London in 2023 and moved its operations to Portugal in May 2025, taking many British clients with it. A Lisbon court declared the clinic insolvent on 25 August 2026. Portugal's fertility regulator, the Conselho Nacional de Procriação Medicamente Assistida (CNPMA), was informed on 27 August, and patients were told by email on the evening of Friday 28 August.
'That weekend was just horrendous. I don't think we slept properly,' Ovom Care patient Rachael Jones, whose embryo transfer had been postponed twice, told the Independent.
At least 38 UK patients are known to be affected, but the clinic is thought to have had around 220 patients, of whom an estimated 60 percent are British, so the actual figure may be much higher.
Affected patients told the Independent that the clinic was still accepting payments in the days before it closed. Some who had not paid by credit card were told that their banks could...