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First UK trial for epilepsy treatment begins at GOSH

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Celebrating the many teams behind a patients' care

Introducing our 'Family Walls': a new artwork in our hospital illustrating the complex journey our patients and families can have at GOSH and the 'GOSH Family' they create along the way.

Watch patients see their GOSH Family Wall for the first time
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Research shows potential for ‘life-transforming’ giant mole reversal therapy

Thanks to hundreds of GOSH patients, researchers from GOSH, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute for Child Health, and the Francis Crick Institute have developed a groundbreaking genetic therapy that could reverse large, painful giant moles, after further study.

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A new Children's Cancer Centre

Learn more about our fantastic plans for this new facility, which includes cancer, theatres, imaging, and critical care services.

Read more about the new Children's Cancer Centre
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Great Ormond Street Hospital Learning Academy

The GOSH Learning Academy represents our educational mission to help healthcare practitioners around the world build rewarding careers and provide outstanding training to drive improvements in paediatric care.

Discover more about the GOSH Learning Academy

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Astronaut Tim Peake ‘launches’ our new NIHR Clinical Research Facility

15 Jul 2024, 3 p.m.

We were thrilled to have astronaut Tim Peake join us at the official launch of the new National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) GOSH Clinical Research Facility where he met with patients, families, staff and children from the GOSH nursery.
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Research and Innovation
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UK Reachback: supporting child victims of the Israel-Gaza conflict

10 Jul 2024, 1:48 p.m.

UK Reachback offers remote clinical support to clinicians caring for children who have been victims of the Israel-Gaza conflict. It is a national humanitarian aid effort and the help is not political or partisan.
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Share your nominations for the GOSH Staff Awards 2024

2 Jul 2024, 2 p.m.

We're calling current GOSH patients, family members or carers to help us celebrate our hardworking teams. Is this you? Nominations are now open for the GOSH Staff Awards until 28 July and if you're a current GOSH patient or family member, we need your he
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Young people want AI involved in their care, new GOSH study shows

10 Jul 2024, 2:21 p.m.

For the first time, a study has asked children and young people across all four UK nations for their views on how they would like AI to be used to enhance their healthcare
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Research and Innovation
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GOSH Surgeon Paolo De Coppi makes first TIME100 Health List

2 May 2024, 2 p.m.

Professor Paolo De Coppi has been added to TIME's inaugural TIME100 Health List of the 100 most influential people in global health this year
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World-first genomic testing scheme ensures every child gets the best cancer treatment for them

2 Jul 2024, 10 a.m.

Children with cancer are being offered treatment plans tailored to their specific cancer thanks to a single genomic test that reads more than three billion letters of DNA to identify cancer-causing mutations.
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