# Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío

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## TL;DR

A large university hospital in Seville, in southern Spain, run under the Andalusian regional government. Its medical oncology, radiation oncology and haematology services treat cancer, and it takes referrals from across Spain for bone and soft-tissue tumours and germ cell tumours.

## Summary

Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío in Seville dates from 1955, according to its own page, and has more than 1,500 beds and more than 10,000 staff. It holds 35 national reference designations (CSUR) to which patients from anywhere in Spain can be referred, 33 Andalusian reference units and procedures, and takes part in 10 European Reference Networks. Its website carries the Junta de Andalucía logo and links to the regional government's public procurement profile.

Its specialties include Medical Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Haematology and Radiophysics. The Medical Oncology clinical management unit has more than 100 staff, outpatient care morning and afternoon, a 20-bed ward and 24-hour specialist on-call cover; it says it is a reference centre for musculoskeletal and germ cell tumours for patients from the region and the rest of Spain, recruits to phase I, II and III trials, and collaborates in basic research with the Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS). Newsweek and Statista rank it 216th in World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: Virgen del Rocío University Hospital; HUVR; Hospital Virgen del Rocío
- City: Seville, ES
- Type: hospital
- Website: https://hospitaluvrocio.es

## Sources

- Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío: https://hospitaluvrocio.es
- Newsweek World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology, rank 216 (Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Seville): https://rankings.newsweek.com/worlds-best-specialized-hospitals-2026/oncology
- Virgen del Rocío: the hospital: https://hospitaluvrocio.es/unidad/hospital-universitario-virgen-del-rocio/
- Virgen del Rocío: Medical Oncology unit: https://hospitaluvrocio.es/unidad/oncologia-medica/
- Virgen del Rocío: Radiation Oncology: https://hospitaluvrocio.es/unidad/oncologia-radioterapica/

## Connected records

- collections: [Newsweek/Statista World's Best Specialized Hospitals: Oncology](https://onco.cc/collections/newsweek-hospitals/)

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