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A new CEO for Great Ormond Street Hospital

Karl Munslow Ong has joined GOSH as its new Chief Executive

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Research and innovation for patients and families

Great Ormond Street Hospital is one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals.

Since 1852 we’ve had the privilege of working to discover better, kinder treatments for the rarest and most complex illnesses to help children reach their full potential.

What's going on around GOSH

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A new Children's Cancer Centre

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GOSH Learning Academy

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Building works: updates and what to expect

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Celebrating the many teams behind a patients' care

GOSH in numbers

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patients seen each day

Every day seriously ill children and young people are seen at GOSH for life-changing treatment and care

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active clinical trials

Transformational clinical trials are currently happening throughout the hospital

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learning opportunities delivered

GOSH Learning Academy provides multi-professional paediatric healthcare education and training

GOSH news

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Working together to transform research

15 Jun 2026, 3:06 p.m.

Our Highlight Report shines a spotlight on some of our brightest and best work in 2025-26. Our Impact report brings together a series of case studies and reflections that showcase the breadth and depth of PPIE across our organisation.
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UK-wide excellence in paediatrics

15 Jun 2026, 2:42 p.m.

Through the Paediatric Excellence Initiative, the NIHR GOSH Biomedical Research Centre is building a connected, collaborative UK-wide system to accelerate paediatric research.
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Families and researchers come together for BPAN Family Day

15 Jun 2026, 12:10 p.m.

Families affected by BPAN came together with clinicians and researchers at GOSH
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Researchers identify brain network linked to deadliest childhood brain cancer

15 Jun 2026, 2:25 p.m.

Researchers at GOSH and University College London have identified a human brain network associated with survival in children with diffuse midline glioma, the deadliest childhood brain cancer.
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Research and Innovation
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Professor Helen Cross elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences

8 Jun 2026, 5:39 p.m.

Professor Helen Cross, Paediatric Neurology Consultant at GOSH and Director of the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, has been elected to the prestigious Academy of Medical Sciences.
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Update for patients and families on industrial action - June 2026

8 Jun 2026, 4:29 p.m.

Some of our resident doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital will be taking part in planned industrial action from 7am on 15 June until 6.59am on 19 June.
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