Task Force Cross-border Reproductive Care

Coordinator

Prof. Guido Pennings
Bioethics Institute Ghent (BIG) Ghent University
Department of Philosophy
Blandijnberg 2
9000 Gent
Belgium
Tel +32 16 620 767
Fax +32 16 620 767
E-mail Guido.Pennings@UGent.be 

Steering Committee Members

Dr Jacques De Mouzon
Cochin-Saint-Vincent De Paul
Service de Gynécologie Obstétrique II et de Médecine de la reproduction
82, avenue Denfert-Rochereau
75014 Paris
France
Tel +33 143 224 679
E-mail jacques.demouzon@inserm.fr / jdemouzon@noos.fr

Dr. Anna Pia Ferraretti
S.I.S.M.E.R. s.r.l.
Reproductive Medicine Unit
Via Mazzini 12
40138 Bologna
Italy
Tel +39 051 307 307
Fax +39 051 302 933
E-mail annapia.ferraretti@sismer.it

Ms. Veerle Goossens
ESHRE Central Office
Meerstraat 60
1852 Grimbergen
Belgium
Tel +32 2263 64 68
Fax +32 2269 56 00
E-mail veerle@eshre.eu

Prof. Tonko Mardesic
Institute Pronatal
Na dlouhé mezi 4/12
147 00 Praha 4
Czech Republic
Tel +420 261711606
Fax +420 261711585
E-mail mardesic@iol.cz
E-mail Tonko.Mardesic@seznam.cz
Mobile +42 602464301 
  

Dr. Amparo Ruiz Jorro
Institut Universitari - IVI Valencia
Management Director
Plaza Policia Local, nº 3
46015 Valencia
Spain
Tel +34 96 305 09 83
Fax + 34 96 305 09 99
E-mail aruiz@ivi.es
Mobile +34 655 93 38 08

Dr. Françoise Shenfield
University College London Hospitals Trust
Reproductive Medicine Unit
250 Euston Rd.
London NW1 2PG
United Kingdom
Tel +44 2034476554
Fax +44 2073809600
E-mail mfi@easynet.co.uk, francoise.shenfield@uclh.nhs.uk
Mobile +44 7521160050
 

The aim of this taskforce is to gather reliable data on the number of patients who cross European borders to access ART, and on the reasons why they travel. This project is an ESHRE initiative based on a collaboration between the European IVF Monitoring consortium (EIM) and the Special Interest Group on Ethics and Law.

The next step is the finalizing of a Code of Practice for cross border care, which is well on its way after the Taskforce meeting in Munich early September 2010. Hopefully this code will be finalized by the end of 2010, so plans for implementation in 2011 can be made.

Data from the Task Force Survey are finally published in Human Reproduction in 2010

Cross Border Reproductive Care in Six European Countries

NEW: ESHRE's Guide to Cross-border Reproductive Care 
Hum. Reprod. (2011) doi: 10.1093/humrep/der090

Spring 2011:
The CBBC taskforce has now 2 new members Amparo Ruiz and Tonko Mardesic, who are joining us in our new project for 2011 the collection of data on oocyte donors in several European countries. An outline of this project will be found in the May edition of Focus on reproduction.