The Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (ANVS) plans to expand the licence of Noordwest Ziekenhuisgroep for its location at Wilhelminalaan 12 in Alkmaar. The hospital wishes to provide cancer patients with more and better care. To achieve this, it needs more radioactive materials and equipment. Our draft licence explains the safety measures required. Anyone can submit a response to this draft licence until November 5th.
Regional general hospital for northern Noord-Holland
Noordwest Ziekenhuisgroep is a regional general hospital that provides health services in the northern Noord-Holland area. The hospital uses devices that emit ionising radiation, such as CT scanners and X-ray equipment. It also uses radioactive materials, to treat cancer, for example.
Expanded cancer research and treatment
Noordwest Ziekenhuisgroep Alkmaar wants to be able to continue providing patients with quality care in future. To that end, the hospital will be carrying out a redevelopment project in three stages. It aims to start using the new facilities built in the first stage in early 2026. The hospital wants to treat greater numbers of cancer patients. This requires additional equipment that uses radiation for cancer detection. The hospital will also be using more radioactive materials for cancer treatment.
One result of these changes is a need for more staff with the requisite expertise and authorisation to work with radiation. That means the hospital will also need to hire more radiation protection experts.
It already has a licence to work with radioactive materials and devices emitting ionising radiation currently. All that is necessary is to expand this licence.
Safe for people and the environment
We want to grant the hospital an expansion of its existing licence. Following the hospital’s redevelopment, it will be discharging more radioactive materials to the sewer system. It has demonstrated that the amounts discharged outside the hospital will remain within statutory limits. It is taking adequate precautions to protect people and the environment.
Responses may be submitted until 5 November 2025
You can review the draft licence (in Dutch) for Noordwest Ziekenhuisgroep Alkmaar until 5 November 2025. If, after reading the draft licence, you have any comments you wish to share, you can respond by submitting a statement of view in 3 ways.
- By email: send an email to Postbus.Aanvragenenmelden@anvs.nl and put ‘Statement of view concerning draft licence for Stichting Noordwestgroep Alkmaar’ in the subject line of your email.
- In writing: send your statement of view to the ANVS, P.O. Box 16001, 2500 BA The Hague. Include the information that this is a ‘Statement of view concerning draft licence for Stichting Noordwestgroep Alkmaar’.
- By telephone: call the Information Desk for Nuclear Energy Act licences at +31 88 489 05 00, available from Monday to Friday between 8.30 and 17.00.
Responses included in final licence decision
We will respond to the stated views once we have made a final decision on the licence application. We will include the statements of view and our responses in the final licence decision. We will publish this licence decision on Publicatieplatform UitvoeringsContent (in Dutch). If you have submitted a statement of view, we will inform you of our decision.
Would you like to find out more?
Please read the official announcement (in Dutch) in the Government Gazette.