The Dutch Heart Registry is a service-oriented quality and registration organization where a high-quality and complete registration of all heart interventions and heart operations in the Netherlands takes place. In addition, registrations are also designed for various, frequently occurring syndromes.

The Dutch Heart Registry (NHR) maintains national registrations on behalf of the participating hospitals, which are represented by mandated physicians. The doctors and hospitals aim to monitor and promote quality of care in the cardiological and cardiac surgery field with these registrations and the mirror information provided by the NHR on the basis of them. The mandated doctors from the hospitals provide substantive direction to the quality registrations. This is done in collaboration with the NVVC and NVT, with whom the NHR also has intensive coordination at policy level.