Hospital Clínic de Barcelona

Hospital Clínic Barcelona is a public university hospital with a long-standing role in clinical care, education and research. Disease-focused institutes and functional units bring specialists together, and much of the institution's biomedical work is connected with IDIBAPS.

The hospital describes functional units as structures that bring different specialties together around a disease or group of diseases. A unit can operate within an institute or connect several institutes, with common aims in patient care, teaching and research. The institution's functional directorates and areas coordinate work across these structures and support the clinical processes, tools and professional resources used by the hospital.

The 2025 activity information identifies inpatient beds, discharges, surgical work and first outpatient visits as separate indicators. Its staff reporting also distinguishes accumulated employment figures from the average workforce and from individual professional categories. Doctors, nursing personnel, administration and management, and general services appear separately. Consequently, the total number of professionals is not presented as the number of physicians, and a staffing measure retains the definition used by the source.

The quality-information area includes patient-reported outcomes and patient-reported experiences alongside clinical activity. The hospital identifies these as PROMs and PREMs and explains that the data are published for transparency, accountability and service improvement. These measures complement the traditional activity figures; they are not the same as patient reviews submitted through an independent portal.

Research in the Medicine Area is largely connected with the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute, IDIBAPS. The official description also identifies ethical and scientific review of clinical-trial protocols and other research projects through the hospital's research ethics committee. The institutional account therefore links patient care to a defined biomedical and governance structure rather than relying solely on the general label of a university hospital.

The hospital publishes annual reports for successive years, making the reporting period part of the source information. Its directory also provides specialty-specific patient contacts and care locations, including internal-medicine services. The combination of disease-focused units, institutional quality indicators, academic research and department-level access information gives a more detailed picture of the hospital than a single list of specialties or a general statement about its size.

The institution reports the following clinical and infrastructure information: outpatient care: Yes; inpatient beds: 755 (Institutional indicators for 2025.); intensive care / resuscitation: Yes; doctors: 1,731 (Average physician workforce reported for 2025; not all employees.). The scope and reporting period remain those of the linked institutional sources.

Hospital Clínic Barcelona’s Medicine Area conducts research largely through the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute, IDIBAPS. Its official page also describes participation in ethical and scientific review of clinical trial protocols and research projects through the hospital’s research ethics committee.