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NHS70: happy birthday to our health service!

28 Jun 2018, 11:43 a.m.

The NHS turns 70 on Thursday 5 July and you can celebrate with us throughout the year!

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Reach Out: Getting teens into Healthcare Science

4 Jul 2018, 10:22 a.m.

The Healthcare Science team at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) recently took part in ‘Reach Out for Healthcare Science’, a programme designed to provide year 10 students from diverse backgrounds with an opportunity to experience life as a healthcare s

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Alice's time @NHS

9 Jul 2018, 9 a.m.

Each week the @NHS Twitter account is handed over to someone who plays a vital role within the health service, to share their story.

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A new Sight and Sound Centre

23 Jul 2018, 2:05 p.m.

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) announces plans to open a state-of-the-art centre for children with hearing and sight loss.

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Celebrate National Play Day with us

30 Jul 2018, 3:14 p.m.

We're celebrating the right of all children to play on Wednesday 1 August – join us by sharing how you used to play and how you play today.

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Paul O’Grady fronts prime time ITV series exploring life at Great Ormond Street Hospital

31 Jul 2018, 2:59 p.m.

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is delighted that a brand-new prime time ITV series based at the hospital, will air this summer. The six-part series will be fronted by Paul O’Grady and will follow the lives of some of the 618 amazing children and thei

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Never giving up – Fazeel's story

22 Aug 2018, 12:10 p.m.

Fazeel has epidermolysis bullosa, also known as EB. It causes the skin to become very fragile, and any trauma or friction to the skin can cause painful blisters.

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Receiving two pioneering surgeries – Aleks’ story

22 Aug 2018, 12:15 p.m.

Aleks was only six years old when her mum, Dana, noticed there was something not right about her left eye.

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New hospital Twitter feed

3 Sep 2018, 8:15 a.m.

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is delighted to announce the launch of a new, dedicated Twitter channel (@GreatOrmondSt) for the Trust.

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GOSH statement on new personalised therapy for children with cancer

5 Sep 2018, 3:56 p.m.

Professor Persis Amrolia, Consultant in Bone Marrow Transplant at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), says:

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GOSH creates organ donation song

6 Sep 2018, 11:04 a.m.

Right now across the UK, there are approximately 150 children on the Transplant List. Forty of those are Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) patients needing heart, lung and kidney transplants.

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Meet GOSH’s Great British Menu star judge, Barbara

21 Sep 2018, 12:57 p.m.

Barbara Childs, Matron of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), was invited to be a judge on this year’s series of Great British Menu, which is celebrating the 70th anniversary of the NHS. We spoke to Barbara to find out

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GOSH DRIVE features in new Government report on the future of technology in healthcare

11 Sep 2018, 3:46 p.m.

A new unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has been included in a pioneering national report into how innovative technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) can be harnessed to transform healthcare and patient outcomes.

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GOSH tribute to Professor Maria Bitner-Glindzicz

21 Sep 2018, 9:27 a.m.

GOSH issued the following statement:

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I was born with bilateral hip dysplasia

1 Oct 2018, 4:45 p.m.

Emma was born in a small town in West Sussex, not too far from Brighton. At birth, she was diagnosed with bilateral hip dysplasia and was referred to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) pretty much straight away. She had her first appointment there when s

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Building the hospital of the future

3 Oct 2018, 10:48 a.m.

Aerobatic buses, 175 floors of hospital and robot-assisted surgery are all predictions for the next seventy years of Great Ormond Street Hospital made by the very people who the hospital helps – our patients!

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A long-term stay in the Mildred Creak Unit

8 Oct 2018, 1:24 p.m.

Eloise was diagnosed with an eating disorder nine years ago and spent nine months in the Mildred Creak Unit (MCU), a highly specialised ward at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for young people with mental health conditions. To mark World Mental Health

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Surviving a cardiac arrest

17 Oct 2018, 10:15 a.m.

On the night of 23 February 2013, Violet, a healthy, seven-year-old girl suffered a cardiac arrest. Up until that point, her parents never had cause for any concern.

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Restart a Heart Day 2018

16 Oct 2018, 3:38 p.m.

For the third year running, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) was pleased to work with the Resuscitation Council UK and London Ambulance Service to invite school children from the local community to be trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skil

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Providing care with heart

20 Nov 2018, 10:16 a.m.

Yaseer has been a patient at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for most of his life. Since his first open heart surgery when he was five years old, he has been touched by the care and expertise of those who have looked after him.

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