| rationalization | global demographic aging trend | “The number of operating hours has skyrocketed. And now, in the last two years, the number of on-call hours has also increased by 13% |
| “The number of emergency patients is increasing all the time and the number of elective patients is increasing because we are also increasing the number of referrals by about 10% every year at the moment.” |
| authorization | legislation | “There will be more patients on the horizon and there will be centralization and if other hospitals do things like that here, there may be more orthopedic and gastro patients and so on. So, the need for this will not diminish.” |
| “I wonder how these centralization regulations and others then again, and soon there will be a lot of patients.” |