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María José Sánchez, Minister of Equality, Health and Social Policies, has carried out this morning her first appearance before the news media to reel off what her priorities will be at the head of the department she heads. Among them, she has highlighted her commitment to meet the deadlines given by her predecessor in office with respect to the opening of the Health Sciences Technology Park (PTS) hospital. Sánchez has guaranteed that the health center will be operational in one year, by the fall of 2014.

On November 20-22, 2013, the XVIII Congress of the Andalusian Society for Healthcare Quality will be held in Granada, with the slogan "ALLIANCES FOR QUALITY". THE DEADLINE FOR COMMUNCATIONS ENDS NEXT SEPTEMBER 30. As last year, we want to promote the presence of our Centers in said Congress, for which the Management Directorate will facilitate the registration fees of those professionals who participate with ORAL COMMUNICATIONS at said Congress.

The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has recently published a new guide aimed at researchers of the Andalusian Public Health System in which the necessary mechanisms are established to request the correct protection of the results of their research through the different modalities of industrial and intellectual property existing.

Professor Mr. Federico Garrido Torres-Puchol, has collected the Andalusian Research Prize 'Columela' for the area of ​​health sciences that was awarded last year.

The university hospitals of Granada have launched the Biosanitary Research Institute of Granada (ibs.GRANADA), with the constitution this Thursday of its scientific committee.

The University Hospitals of Granada welcome the constitution of the Spanish Association of Statistics for Health (AESA), based in the Virgen de las Nieves Hospital, whose objective is to establish collaborations between statistics professionals who develop their work in the field of health sciences, also including professionals from other related disciplines to provide quality to the statistical study of data collected in the health field and thus contribute to raising confidence in statistical methods and results.

According to a resolution of June 11, 2013, from the Carlos III Health Institute, grants are awarded from the Strategic Action in Health 2013-2016, from the State Research Program Oriented to the Challenges of Society, within the framework of the State Research Plan Science and Technology. The purpose of the actions regulated in this resolution is to contribute to promoting the health and well-being of citizens, as well as to develop the preventive, diagnostic, curative, rehabilitative and palliative aspects of the disease, reinforcing and increasing the international competitiveness of the R + D + i in the National Health System and companies related to the sector.