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Takeover Challenge 2025

4 Feb 2025, 1 p.m.

Takeover Challenge is a national event that welcomes children and young people into real-life decision-making positions in organisations.

Join us in the countdown to Rare Disease Day 2025

1 Feb 2025, 9 a.m.

Rare Disease Day takes place annually on the last day of February and is a global opportunity to increase awareness and advocate for those living with rare conditions.

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Children’s Cancer Centre: main contractor on board

30 Jan 2025, 8 a.m.

The contract for the main works to develop our new Children’s Cancer Centre has been awarded to John Sisk & Son (Sisk).

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Significant rise in mental health admissions for young people over last decade

23 Jan 2025, 1:48 p.m.

The first study of its kind has found a 65% increase in the number of children and young people admitted to general acute medical wards in hospitals in England, because of a mental health concern between 2012 and 2022.

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Could adapting our sinks help combat superbugs?

16 Jan 2025, 5 p.m.

Discover how a Consultant Microbiologist at GOSH turned an innovative idea into a patented product that could revolutionise infection control in hospitals, schools, and airports – helping to stop superbugs like MRSA.