Latest press releases

The latest Great Ormond Street Hospital press releases are collected here. For our general news and feature pieces, please access our news area.

Information for patients – Junior doctors’ strike

25 Apr 2016, 4:54 p.m.

Junior doctors nationwide have voted to take industrial action from 8 am to 5 pm on Tuesday 26 April and Wednesday 27 April.

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New Chief Financial Officer joins the Trust

29 Mar 2016, 5:36 p.m.

Loretta Seamer, an experienced financial leader, will take up the post of Chief Financial Officer at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children Foundation Trust from 1 April.

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GOSH artist in residence launches pioneering artwork created in partnership with patients and their families

4 Mar 2016, 5:19 p.m.

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has unveiled a new art project by the celebrated artist Sofie Layton, who has worked closely with young people living with cardiac conditions and undergoing gene therapy to create the works.

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Antibiotic coated tubes could reduce infection rates of children in intensive care

3 Mar 2016, 12:13 p.m.

Coating the plastic tubing that is used to give life-saving drugs and fluids into a child’s vein with antibiotics could help to prevent bloodstream infections developing in children in intensive care, reports teams from the UCL Institute of Child Health a

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GOSH patients feature in Channel 4 documentary

1 Mar 2016, 6:03 p.m.

Channel 4’s long-running documentary Born to be Different returns to our screens on Tuesday 1 and Tuesday 8 March, 9–10 pm.

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