[1] The eight university hospitals offer the highest level of care available in the Netherlands.
Each of these hospitals offers specialized services such as neurosurgery, cardiac surgery, a high-level emergency department, advanced oncology, departments for infectious diseases, and other services such a nuclear medicine generally not found in other hospitals.
The Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, the national burn center associated with the Red Cross Hospital in Beverwijk, the Central Military Hospital, in Utrecht, and the national Major Incident Hospital (at University Medical Center Utrecht) consisting of a sleeping hospital with a capacity of 100 beds consisting of a mix of intensive, mid and low level care, surgery rooms etc.
A larger number of high quality hospitals participate in training of medical doctors in the lasts years of their study, nurses and lab technicians.
Source:[2] A number of hospitals that deliver a broad spectrum of specialised care at high level contribute to training of healthcare professionals by offering internships as part of the later years of university medical doctor training and contribute to education programmes of other medical staff (e.g. nursing, laboratory technicians).