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Reporting point for organ transplant travel movements

At the online reporting point for Organ Transplant Travel Movements, you can report organ transplants of Dutch patients who travel abroad for this purpose.

What is this reporting point intended for?

The reporting point is intended to gain insight into foreign transplants of Dutch patients. Why is this important?

  • We want to better understand what is happening.
  • We want to develop targeted preventive policy.
  • We want to strengthen international cooperation.
  • We want to increase the safety of patients and donors.

The reports are analyzed for signs of possible illegal transplants. In this way, the reporting point contributes to combating organ trafficking and improving national and international regulations.

Who can make a report?

Healthcare workers are often the first, and sometimes the only, people who see signs of an illegal transplant. For example, they can make a report if they notice that:

  • A patient has received a donor kidney abroad and returns to the Netherlands with complications. Also readthis publication about an increased riskof complications in the illegal circuit.
  • A patient comes to you for care after receiving a kidney abroad.
  • It does not necessarily have to involve illegal activity. You are reporting the travel movement.

To the online reporting form

What information do I need for the report?

You fill in details about the transplant:

  • Date.
  • Country.
  • Transplant center.
  • You indicate whether there is a referral for a transplant abroad.

Important:

  • A report contains no names, BSN (citizen service numbers), or dates of birth of the persons involved.
  • A report also contains no details of the reporter. Therefore, you cannot be contacted regarding the report.
What happens after you submit your report?

You submit a report to the TRIP Foundation. TRIP collects the reports from the Netherlands and forwards them to the international reporting point (Registry of International Travel for Transplantation Activity). Reports from other European countries are also received here. Reporting takes place at an aggregated level.

Who has access to the data?
  • Only TRIP Foundation staff have access.
  • Other countries with a reporting point have access to general figures.
  • The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) can request aggregated data from the TRIP Foundation.
What is the reporting point not intended for?
  • The reporting point is not for reporting dangerous situations. For this, you should contact, for example, the Health and Youth Care Inspectorate (IGJ), the Public Prosecution Service, or the police. You submit the report directly to these authorities.
  • You can only submit a report if a Dutch patient has traveled abroad for an organ transplant. Not the other way around: someone who has traveled to the Netherlands for an organ transplant.
  • The data obtained via the reporting point is used exclusively for knowledge purposes. It is not intended for the investigation or prosecution of individual persons.
Who is responsible for the reporting point?

The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) is responsible for the reporting point. On behalf of VWS, the TRIP Foundation collects the reports via an online form.

TRIP stands for 'Transfusion and Transplantation Reactions in Patients'. On behalf of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, the TRIP foundation is responsible for registering, analyzing, and reporting submitted notifications regarding reactions and incidents involving the use of blood products, human cells, or tissues, with the aim of increasing patient safety in the Netherlands.

What is the relationship with the European network (NFP) and the NTS?

What is the relationship with the European network (NFP) and the NTS?
The Dutch reporting point collects data for an international network of National Focal Points on Transplant Related Crimes (NFP). The goal of the NFPs is to map out issues surrounding organ trafficking.

This implements a resolution of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. This resolution focuses on collecting and disseminating data on transplants performed outside of a national transplant system. In this way, targeted action is taken, for example in the adjustment of policy and legislation and the improvement of international cooperation.

The NTS provides information about the national and international reporting point. In the future, the national reporting point will be housed at the NTS.

General questions about reports?