The Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (ANVS) is expanding Noordwest Ziekenhuisgroep’s licence 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 devices. Our licence explains the safety measures required. Interested parties have the right to appeal against this licensing decision until midnight on 14 January 2026.
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Top clinical hospital for the northern Noord-Holland area
Noordwest Ziekenhuisgroep is a top clinical 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 citizens 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 devices 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.
It already has a licence (in Dutch) 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 and the increased radiation dose outside the hospital will remain within statutory limits. It is taking adequate precautions to protect people and the environment.
Responses to the draft licence
Until midnight on 5 November 2025, all parties had the opportunity to submit a response to the draft licence (in Dutch). One local resident responded and submitted a statement of view (public participation response). The resident is concerned about the adjustments to geographical boundaries and the effects of an increased use of radioactive materials. This statement of view did not give rise to any changes to the draft licence. We provide a more detailed account of these matters in the final licence.
Appeals possible until 14 January
If you are an interested party and you are directly affected by our decision to grant this licence, you have the right to appeal (in Dutch) against the licensing decision until 14 January 2026. This is also possible if you cannot reasonably be held accountable for having failed to submit a statement of view earlier. The deadline for submissions was 5 November 2025.
Would you like to find out more?
Please read the official announcement (in Dutch) in the Government Gazette.