For two days, international experts have analyzed the comprehensive capacity of the center to achieve European standard
A team of six auditors from the Organization of European cancer Institutes (OECI) and the coordinator of the OECI program of our center have carried out the face-to-face audit of the accreditation process of the Sant Joan University Hospital in Reus and the IISPV to be recognized as a European Cancer Center. For two days, Thursday, 15 and Friday, May 16, external auditors of different nationalities and professional profiles have participated in an exhaustive program of presentations, interviews and visits aimed at specific teams and people throughout the center. Once the evaluation was completed, Brend Kremer, responsible for the audit team, presented the preliminary results and noted the strengths of the institution as well as the opportunities for improvement, and announced that the most exhaustive report of the process would be known in October. El Kremer also thanked the good reception that the entire team of auditors had received, as well as the involvement of all the professionals who have participated in this process, which addresses aspects such as attendance, research, teaching, innovation or training.
Two years of work
The different work teams of the Hospital management, together with teams from the Institute of Oncology of Southern Catalonia (IOCS) and the Pere Virgili Health Research Institute, have been working for two years in a previous phase of documentation collection, which has allowed to pass the first stage of accreditation, which is focused on self-evaluation. Subsequently, the second stage of accreditation began, which has culminated in face-to-face auditing.
However, this is not yet the final point, but involves designing an improvement plan in which the Hospital has already begun to work and which must be drafted in December 2025. From then on, with all the information received and what is required of us, the highest-ranking accreditation and designation committee of the ICAO will give the final report in February 2026. One year after obtaining the certificate, the center must submit a written report with the progress of the objectives, actions and the schedule established in the improvement plan. It is not until after five years that a reaccreditation takes place.
The OECI is the most prestigious organisation that carries out this accreditation and is currently made up of more than 100 centres throughout Europe.
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