Last week it was announced that the academic hospitals, including UMC Utrecht, could not agree on a joint recommendation on the concentration of pediatric heart surgery. Minister Kuipers had asked for this, but the hospitals said that they do not have a good idea “of the actual effects on other care”. That is why, according to them, it was now the minister’s turn.
Big disappointment for UMC Utrecht: centers for pediatric heart surgery will be opened in Rotterdam and Groningen
