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.

100,000 Genome Project comes to GOSH

8 Aug 2014, 5:22 p.m.

GOSH patients, families, doctors and nurses have played a major role in the build up to a national project that hopes to analyse the DNA of tens of thousands of people with rare diseases and cancers in order to better understand, and ultimately treat, rar

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Final days of our public consultation on the Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children

24 Jul 2014, 3:18 p.m.

Our public consultation on proposals to build the Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children on a disused site near the hospital drew to a close on Sunday, 27 July 2014.

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Transformative gift to create the world’s first centre for research into rare diseases in children

15 Jul 2014, 5:37 p.m.

Plans to open the world’s first centre dedicated to paediatric research into rare diseases at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) are to become a reality thanks to a £60 million gift from Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak.

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New treatment leads to successful kidney transplants in 'untransplantable' children

8 Jul 2014, 4:40 p.m.

A treatment that allows for kidney transplantation in patients who have rejected previous transplants has been carried out in a child for the first time in the UK at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).

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Savile report: press statement

23 Jun 2014, 1:59 p.m.

The Trust has conducted a thorough investigation into an allegation that Jimmy Savile abused an inpatient at the hospital in 1971.

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