The SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital is a university, maternity, and paediatric hospital dedicated exclusively to caring for pregnant women, children, and teenagers under the age of 18. With an over 150-year history, we are one of Europe’s busiest children’s hospitals.

Experts deliver advanced care

Our team consists of more than 3,400 specialised paediatric professionals, trained at internationally renowned facilities around the globe. Our main specialities are paediatric surgery, foetal surgery, cardiology, rare and complex diseases, neurology and neurosurgery, oncology and orthopaedics and traumatology.

Our specialised SJD Paediatric Cancer Centre treats over 400 children and teenagers with cancer every year. It is a monographic paediatric cancer centre, unique in Spain, and one of the largest in Europe and worldwide.

We have a high capability to develop advanced therapies in childhood oncology, which are available in very few centres worldwide, as for example:

• CART-19 immunotherapy – modifying the patient's own lymphocytes to destroy cancer cells

• We were the first hospital in the world (with the Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York) to offer anti-G2 immunotherapy with naxitamab to treat refractory high-risk neuroblastomas

• Oncolytic viruses genetically modified to destroy eye tumours.

A hospital dedicated to paediatric patients and their families

At the SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital, we work hard to reduce the impact of hospitalisation on our patients. That is why the design and comfort of our facilities is so important, as a pleasant environment can help reduce anxiety in children receiving treatment. Our aim is no pain. We know that distraction is a very powerful tool in reducing the perception of pain during routine care. That is why we have dogs, music, art and clown performers involved in our therapies – even canine-assisted operations!

SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital obtains five stars in the international recognition Global Hospital Rating.