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Finding your way around GOSH

Great Ormond Street Hospital is made up of various buildings across the site. The map and information on this page will help you find your way around.

A colourful map showing the layout of the hospital buildings

The original main entrance on Great Ormond Street is now closed and the new entrance can now be found at The Morgan Stanley Clinical Building, on Guilford Street. This is the best entrance for most people with an appointment or admission in the main hospital.

With its colourful artwork, by artists Ling Tan, Usman Haque and children from the hospital school, we hope you find it easy to spot.

The original entrance on Great Ormond Street will be closed for the duration of the construction works of our new Children’s Cancer Centre.

Please check your appointment letter or MyGOSH for information about alternative entrances to the main GOSH hospital.

Both The Morgan Stanley Clinical Building and Octav Botnar entrances are wheelchair accessible.

From The Morgan Stanley Clinical Building there is a lift to the Lagoon.

Search by ward

  • Alligator – Premier Inn Clinical Building (PICB), Floor 4
  • Bear – Morgan Stanley Clinical Building (MSCB), Floor 6
  • Bumblebee – Octav Botnar Wing (OBW), Floor 5
  • Butterfly – Octav Botnar Wing (OBW), Floor 4
  • Chameleon – Premier Inn Clinical Building (PICB), Floor 5
  • Dolphin: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) – Variety Club Building (VCB), Floor 4
  • Eagle (Dialysis Unit) – Morgan Stanley Clinical Building (MSCB), Floor 7
  • Elephant – Variety Club Building (VCB), Floor 6
  • Flamingo (CICU) – Morgan Stanley Clinical Building (MSCB), Floor 4
  • Fox – Variety Club Building (VCB), Floor 5
  • Gastroenterology Investigation Suite – Octav Botnar Wing (OBW), Floor 3
  • Giraffe – Variety Club Building (VCB), Floor 6
  • Hedgehog – Variety Club Building (VCB), Floor 3
  • Kangaroo – Premier Inn Clinical Building (PICB), Floor 2
  • Kingfisher – Octav Botnar Wing (OBW), Floor 3
  • Koala – Morgan Stanley Clinical Building (MSCB), Floor 5
  • Leopard – Premier Inn Clinical Building (PICB), Floor 2
  • Lion – Variety Club Building (VCB), Floor 6
  • Mildred Creak Unit (MCU) – Variety Club Building (VCB), Floor 6
  • Nightingale Day Unit – Premier Inn Clinical Building (PICB), Floor 3
  • Panther – Premier Inn Clinical Building (PICB), Floor 6
  • RANU – Premier Inn Clinical Building (PICB), Floor 4
  • Pelican – Premier Inn Clinical Building (PICB), Floor 7
  • Possum – Premier Inn Clinical Building (PICB), Floor 5
  • Renal Support Unit – Southwood Building, Floor 7
  • Respiratory Sleep Unit – Premier Inn Clinical Building (PICB), Floor 4
  • Robin – Variety Club Building (VCB), Floor 5
  • Safari Daycare – Southwood Building, Floor 9
  • Seahorse: Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) – Variety Club Building (VCB), Floor 4
  • Sky – Octav Botnar Wing (OBW), Floor 6
  • Squirrel – Variety Club Building (VCB), Floor 5
  • Walrus Clinical Investigations Centre – Morgan Stanley Clinical Building (MSCB), Floor 1
  • Walrus Day Care – Morgan Stanley Clinical Building (MSCB), Floor 1
  • Woodpecker – Variety Club Building (VCB), Floor 3

Search by building

Morgan Stanley Clinical Building (MSCB)

  • Bear – Floor 6
  • Eagle (Dialysis Unit) – Floor 7
  • Flamingo (CICU) – Floor 4
  • Koala – Floor 5
  • Walrus Clinical Investigations Centre – Floor 1
  • Walrus Day Care – Floor 1

Octav Botnar Wing (OBW)

  • Bumblebee – Floor 5
  • Butterfly – Floor 4
  • Gastroenterology Investigation Suite – Floor 3
  • Kingfisher – Floor 3
  • Sky – Floor 6

Premier Inn Clinical Building (PICB)

  • Alligator – Floor 4
  • Chameleon – Floor 5
  • Kangaroo – Floor 2
  • Leopard – Floor 2
  • Nightingale Day Unit – Floor 3
  • Panther – Floor 6
  • Pelican – Floor 7
  • Possum – Floor 5
  • RANU – Floor 4
  • Respiratory Sleep Unit – Floor 4

Southwood Building

  • Renal Support Unit – Floor 7
  • Safari Daycare – Floor 9

Variety Club Building (VCB)

  • Elephant – Floor 6
  • Fox – Floor 5
  • Giraffe – Floor 6
  • Hedgehog Ward – Floor 3
  • Lion – Floor 6
  • Mildred Creak Unit (MCU) – Floor 6
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) – Floor 4
  • Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) – Floor 4
  • Robin – Floor 5
  • Squirrel – Floor 5
  • Woodpecker – Floor 3

Find out more information about the wards at GOSH.

If your appointment or admission is in the Octav Botnar Wing, please access the hospital through the entrance on Lamb's Conduit Street.

If your appointment is at the Sight and Sound Centre, the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine or at Falcon Outpatients in the Zayed Centre for Research, there are no changes in how you access these buildings.

If eligible, parking permits can be collected from the reception in the Lagoon restaurant, near to entrance A of the Morgan Stanley Clinical Building, or Falcon Outpatients, Zayed Centre for Research.

Our patient transport provider, HATs, will bring patients to the Morgan Stanley Clinical Building entrance (MSCB). We have a new patient transport desk and waiting area in the MSCB.

There is no change for patients arriving by emergency ambulance or on a trolley, who will come in via Powis Place, as now.