The Hospital of Torrevieja and Vinalopó reinforce his investigative role in both departments.

-Torrevieja and Vinalopó hospitals share clinical research ethical Committee, after the recent validation by the General Directorate for Pharmacy and medical devices

-the large number of research projects developed at both departments has resulted the certification of the CEIC in Torrevieja-Vinalopócurrently composed of some thirty specialists

-a. long of 2013 will be published results on research in the area of Oncology, fruit of the agreement in force with the Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Spain, January 2013.- the Hospital of Torrevieja and Vinalopó will share clinical research ethical Committeemade that it highlights the growing research in both departments facet and the large number of research projects, around half centar, put in place during the past year.

The General Directorate for Pharmacy and medical devices has granted the certification to the ethical Committee of clinical research of the Hospital of Torrevieja and Hospital de Vinalopó, made that will allow research flexibility and agility in the evaluation of clinical trials launched simultaneously by both centers.

The large number of research projects developed in two separate departments has resulted in the certification of the CEIC in Torrevieja-Vinalopó, currently composed of some thirty specialists, achievement that would not have been possible had not been by the exponential growth in the number of research projects undertaken to date.

Currently, the Ethics Committee’s research clinic of the Hospital of Torrevieja and Hospital of the Vinalopó has with around fifty active studies in both departments, many of them are being developed simultaneously. Indeed, much of these studies have the collaboration of longstanding research hospitals.

The number of practitioners involved in research during 2012 has meant a quantitative increase of 35% over the financial year 2011; Similarly, the number of projects themselves, born in the bosom of both centers, has experienced an exponential growth, so that many of them are currently made in colaboracón with other hospitals in the own region in collaboration with other autonomous communities.

The research profile of the professionals is characterised by its multidisciplinarity, with medical specialists, nurses, medical, biochemical and medical tecnicoas who dedicated much of his time to facets researchers.

The number of participating services has increased significantly; to the traditional services participating in research projects such as ophthalmology, internal medicine, Oncology, Nephrology, Pulmonology, cardiology, vascular surgery, primary care, psychiatry, Dermatology and Urology; have joined, during 2012, others such as Hematology, critical care medicine, Anesthesiology, digestive medicine, Gynecology and endocrinology.

In recent years, health departments of Torrevieja and Vinalopó have demonstrated the quality of the research work, currently being centres especially attractive to promoters of the clinical trials that are being developed in our country; Despite the current economic situation, the number of trials has increased dramatically, fact that evidenced the effectiveness and research efficiency of professionals that integrate both centers.

CSIC (Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) Convention

He recalled the agreement in force of both health departments with the CSIC (higher scientific research center) whose impact on the publication of works on basic research in the Oncology area will see its fruits during this year 2013.