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.

Response to BBC London programme

18 Apr 2012, 7:06 p.m.

Great Ormond Street Hospital is a safe, open and high performing Trust which promotes a culture of quality and safety. Staff are encouraged to raise concerns so that they can be addressed.

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Photoreceptor transplant restores vision in mice

18 Apr 2012, 3:08 p.m.

Jane Sowden, GOSHCC Professor of Developmental Biology & Genetics, UCL Institute of Child Health, is a co-author of this exciting paper published in Nature today. Visit the GOSHCC blog to find out more.

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Great Ormond Street Hospital to take part in newborn screening pilot for five more diseases

12 Apr 2012, 3:58 p.m.

Great Ormond Street Hospital, which runs the UK's largest newborn screening lab, is to take part in a pilot to screen newborn babies for five more diseases.

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Boy spends record time with artificial heart

10 Apr 2012, 2:34 p.m.

Three year old Joe Skerratt is now a picture of health, but he was kept alive for 251 days by an artificial heart – longer than any other child in the UK.

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Great Ormond Street Hospital welcomes funding for world’s most advanced form of radiotherapy

5 Apr 2012, 11:47 a.m.

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) patients are set to benefit from a government announcement today that up to £250 million of funding will bring Proton Beam Therapy to the UK.

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