Clinics and wards used by the Dental and Maxillofacial Surgery team

Children at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for inpatient dental and maxillofacial care are looked after on Panther Ward.

Panther Ward cares for children and young people having ear, nose and throat, plastic surgery, dental surgery or urology operations. There are 24 beds, including four high dependency care beds for children and young people needing close monitoring and nursing care, perhaps due to their condition or following an operation.

Twelve of the beds are in a single cubicle with en-suite bathrooms and space for one parent to stay. The rest of the beds are in three shared bays of four beds – each bed space can closed off for privacy – with its own accessible toilet. There is also a fully accessible bathroom with hoist facilities on Panther Ward.

Panther Ward is on Level 6 of the new Premier Inn Clinical Building (PICB), part of the Mittal Children’s Medical Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Nightingale Day Unit cares for children and young people  having day case procedures.

There are 18 post-operative and post-anaesthetic beds.

Nine of these beds are in cubicles – these will mainly be used for children who either have an infection or need to be protected from infection. These cubicles have their own en-suite bathrooms and our system for TV and films, which you can also use to access the internet, as well as Wi-Fi so you can connect your own device.

The rest of the beds are in shared bays – each bed space can be closed off for privacy – with its own accessible toilet. The bed spaces also have our system for TV and films.

If your child has any additional needs, please call in advance to let us know. We provide a snack box to every child after their procedure – please tell us about any special dietary requirements.

Location

Nightingale Day Unit is on Level 3 of the new Premier Inn Clinical Building (PICB), part of the Mittal Children’s Medical Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Panther Ward and Nightingale are mainly run by our team of nurses, who work closely with the doctors to care for your child. Other staff who work on the ward include discharge coordinator, physiotherapists, social workers, occupational therapists, healthcare assistants, a play specialist, dietitians and housekeeping staff.

Doctors from all specialities make regular visits to the ward, as do psychologists, social workers and other clinical nurse specialists as needed.

If you would like to speak to your child’s doctor (or another member of the team), please ask one of the nurses to arrange this for you, as we cannot guarantee they will be free to visit straight away, particularly if they are in the operating theatre.

Great Ormond Street Hospital is also a teaching facility so you will see student nurses and doctors completing their training, but they will be supervised at all times by a qualified member of staff.

The Dental and Maxillofacial Surgery department run a number of weekly outpatients clinics. These are:

• orthodontics
• paediatric and restorative dentistry
• pre-assessment clinic for paediatric dental and maxillofacial
• maxillofacial surgery/orthodontic combined clinic
• maxillofacial/orthodontic/plastics/craniofacial combined clinic
• multidisciplinary cleft lip and palate
• multidisciplinary craniofacial clinic