The Catharina Hospital is an ambitious, top clinical teaching hospital in Eindhoven. The healthcare professionals are driven to give patients the best care every day. Besides the basic functions, they offer top clinical care in a number of areas: cardiovascular care, oncology, obesity and kidney failure. For these, regional and national hospitals refer patients to Catharina Hospital.The number of drugs that are unavailable in the Netherlands for short or long periods of time is still rising. Pharmacists see little bread in making drugs for the non-commercial market. "By building its own compounding center, Catharina Hospital maintains a position in the market by keeping drugs that make a difference for patients accessible. It is quite special that Catharina Hospital has built a completely new compounding pharmacy. There are only 10 facilities in the Netherlands that still make drugs on their own premises for not only their own hospital but for the whole of the Netherlands. They make drugs that the pharmaceutical industry is unwilling or unable to make.