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The GOSH press office handles all media relations, including journalist, filming, and photography enquiries.

Statement about our domestic services team

27 Jan 2022, 6:02 p.m.

Our cleaning and domestic services colleagues are critical and valued members of our team. The work they do is essential to providing a clean, welcoming hospital environment that’s safe from infection.

Rates of short-sightedness increasing in the UK

19 Jan 2022, 7 p.m.

New research suggests our changing environment, as well as changing gene-environment interactions, could explain increasing rates of short-sightedness over time in the UK.

Industrial action at GOSH: update for families and visitors

18 Jan 2022, 11:21 a.m.

19.01.22: Further to our statement from yesterday (please see below), the industrial action previously planned has been suspended. If you have any concerns or queries, please reach out to our Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) on pals@gosh.nhs.uk

GOSH Non- Executive Director awarded in New Year's Honours list

12 Jan 2022, 4:47 p.m.

Professor Russell Viner, a non-Executive Director at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, has been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to child and adolescent health, particularly during Covid-19.

Children with rare genetic disease get world-first treatment to save sight

10 Jan 2022, 10 a.m.

In a world-first, GOSH clinicians have trialled a new treatment to prevent blindness in children with CLN2 type Batten disease, a rare and fatal genetic disorder.