Our strategy

The challenges facing us are considerable, but so are the opportunities to tackle them. As a university medical center we have a unique role: we train professionals, perform innovative research, develop new solutions that contribute thereto, and offer care of an exceptional level. It is through this combination that we add value to people’s lives. At a regional, national, and international level.

To achieve future-proof care more effectively, we must organize healthcare, education, and research differently. It means that we must think of new solutions, establish links between different subjects and professions, and embrace technology. We cannot do this alone: we must collaborate within strong networks. With colleagues, patients, and students. And with partners in the region, countrywide, and beyond national borders. In this regard, we are working daily on our Connecting Worlds strategy.

Our research is divided into six multidisciplinary programs (focal points): Circulatory Health, Brain, Infection & Immunity, Cancer, Child Health, and Regenerative Medicine. Our healthcare is integrated into these. We are accelerating our strategy by focusing specifically on content within these focal points. These are our seven 'accelerators':

• Healthy living 

• Biofabrication & disease modelling 

• Molecular science & therapy 

• Image-guided interventions 

• Integral complex care for children

• Acute complex care

• The New Utrecht School

What makes our education unique is our educational strategy called The New Utrecht School. The core elements of this strategy are: interdisciplinary and inter-professional learning, patient participation, diversity and inclusion, translational medicine and life sciences, resilience and wellbeing, and Planetary Health.

Mission

Our mission is clear: Together we improve human health and create the healthcare of tomorrow.

Vision

Our vision provides direction: together, we add value to people’s lives because every person counts. Now and in the future.

View our strategy booklet for a detailed explanation of our strategy.

Transformation of UMC Utrecht

At UMC Utrecht, we are working on a new organizational structure, which will enable us to realize our vision and mission as UMC Utrecht more effectively and more quickly. We do this by organizing our processes and activities in ways that make collaboration easier, more efficient, and even better. Always careful, transparent, and with attention for people. As one UMC Utrecht, working together toward a future-proof organization in which every person counts.