Digital care usage among care providers and care users in 2025 remained largely unchanged compared to 2024. Some applications saw more frequent use, with more GPs and hospital doctors, for example, using video calls and AI-powered voice-to-text for tasks such as dictating clinical notes

Over the past few months, about three-quarters of infants in the Netherlands have had an injection against the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). As a result, there have been significantly fewer babies admitted to children’s intensive care units (ICU). In the 2024-2025 season, a total of 178 infants had been admitted to ICU due to RSV infections by the start of February. In this season, there have been 43 infant ICU admissions for RSV so far. Since September 2025, an injection against RSV has been included in the National Immunisation Programme.