Hundreds of children cared for at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and their families have begun their Christmas celebrations early with a magical festive party.
Launching a mental health booth for families and patients
22 Jan 2019, 5:08 p.m.
As part of a pioneering new study, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) today launched a drop-in centre providing accessible, low-intensity early intervention services for patients and families concerned about their mental health.
Patients at GOSH have created a colourful art canvas that took pride of place behind the Shadow Secretary of State for Health at Westminster this week as part of the launch of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) State of Child Health
GOSH hosts first Children’s Hospital Education Specialists Symposium
18 Feb 2019, 10:37 a.m.
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) was delighted to host the first ever Children’s Hospital Education Specialist Symposium (CHESS), a national, one-day forum championing paediatric education, backed by the Children’s Hospital Alliance.
GOSH and Global Action Plan launch the first ever Clean Air Hospital Framework
5 Mar 2019, 11:36 a.m.
Today 5 March sees Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) and Global Action Plan launching the first ever Clean Air Hospital Framework (CAHF), a strategy aimed at improving air quality in and around hospitals in order to cre
Did you know that across the hospital, within the walls, floors and corridors, patient blood samples whizz from our wards to the labs, via the chute, where they’re processed and used for diagnostics?
"My job is to help young people to find joy, resilience, self-expression, and empowerment through music. I can’t think of a better place to do that than at Great Ormond Street Hospital", says Katya, our first full-time Music Therapist.
A team from University College London Hospitals (UCLH), UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has won the clinical leadership team award in the BMJ awards, the UK's leading medical awards which promote excellence in healthcare and recognise the insp
Celebrating our Nurses and Operating Department Practitioners
9 May 2019, 4:56 p.m.
When a patient has surgery, it brings together multi-disciplinary teams from across the hospital. Two such teams are nursing and operating department practitioners (ODPs).
First use of pioneering phage virus therapy to treat patient with cystic fibrosis
10 May 2019, 1:38 p.m.
A new treatment that uses a cocktail of naturally-occurring viruses to infect and destroy bacteria has been used for the first time to treat a fifteen year old patient at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).
If you’re visiting Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) between 13 – 19 May, you’ll notice the hospital looking a little different than usual. That’s because we’re lighting up some of our buildings with green light, as part of our support for Mental Health
New NHS treatment available for first time for patients with a rare neuromuscular disorder
15 May 2019, 12:08 p.m.
Patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and across the country are to benefit from a new drug on the NHS that targets the underlying cause of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
To mark International Clinical Trials Day this May, we took a visit to the Clinical Research Facility (CRF) to meet with GOSH mum Flavia, whose son Matei has been on a clinical trial at the hospital for the last couple of years.
Key steps on how to reduce diabetes risk in children
7 Jun 2019, 11:25 a.m.
It's Diabetes Week (10 - 16 June) and Paediatric expert and Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist Rakesh Amin at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), is urging parents to learn the key steps on how to lower their children’s risk of developing type 2 diabe
The Children’s Hospital School, based at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and University College Hospital (UCH) has taken part in The Great Science Share, a national campaign that aims to inspire young people to share their scientific questions with a
To mark Clean Air Day 2019, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) opened its first “Play Street” for patients and the local community, as part of pioneering work to improve air quality.
Taking Flight writing competition: read the winning stories
31 Jul 2019, 10:05 a.m.
Back in May we held ‘Taking Flight: A Month Of Stories at GOSH’, the hospital’s first ever flash fiction writing competition, to celebrate the 90th anniversary of JM Barrie, author of Peter Pan, gifting the rights in his famous book and play to the hospit
Children, young people and families are invited to our Open Day to learn more about how GOSH operates today and explore how the hospital could operate in 20 years' time.
Great Ormond Street Hospital is internationally renowned for being one of only a few hospitals in the world to have the infrastructure, facilities and team of experts to take on one of medicine’s most challenging conditions – separating twins who are conj
