The internationally renowned Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam is using an integral approach to build for its future. The university’s medical centre, which offers academic medical care, medical education and scientific research, is becoming the biggest ‘drive-in’ hospital in the world, with quick and comfortable accessibility. However, it was decided to move the drug manufacturing department in the hospital pharmacy (where a great diversity of drugs is prepared for some very specific patient groups) to a more central site in the country, freeing it from both the technical and space limitations that were present in the existing building.
‘As an academic hospital, we want to maintain our own control of research, education and care for the benefit of specific patient groups,’ says Dr András Vermes, Erasmus MC hospital pharmacist and head of drug manufacturing at Erasmus MC. ‘This also means supplying children, who represent a relatively small patient group, with the requisite medicines they need but which are not commercially available.
‘In the past few years many public pharmacies stopped making their own preparations because alternative, large-scale manufacturers offered competitive prices. We, as hospital pharmacists, fill the gap created in the area of research that is not commercially attractive, but which is necessary for effective customised treatment and therapy.’
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