Ward and admissions information

These pages introduce the different wards at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

For more details on your ward, click on the links below:  

• Badger Ward
  (respiratory)
• Bear Ward
  (cardiac low and high dependency unit)
  
• Bumblebee Ward
  (international and private patients)

• Butterfly Ward
  (international and private patients)

• Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)
  (cardiac critical care, now moved into Flamingo Ward)

• Caterpillar Outpatients
  (international and private patients)

• Dinosaur Ward
  (same daye pre-admission unit)

• Dragonfly Ambulatory Care
  (haematology, oncology day cases, private patients)

• Eagle Ward
  (renal)
  

• Elephant Ward
  (haematology, oncology)

• Flamingo Ward
  (cardiac critical care)
  

• Fox Ward
  (bone marrow transplant)

• Hippo Dialysis Unit
  (dialysis, now moved into Eagle Ward)

• Island Day Unit
  (day care surgery)
• Island Short Stay Ward
  (short stay surgery)

• Kingfisher Ward
  (gastroenterology inpatients)

• Koala Ward
  (neurosciences)
  

• Ladybird Ward
  (cardiac low and high dependency unit, now moved into Bear Ward)

• Lion Ward
  (haematology, oncology)

• Miffy Transitional Care Unit
  (transitional care, long-term ventilation support)

• Mildred Creak Unit (MCU)
  (mental health)

• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

• Octopus Day Ward
  (cardiac day care, now moved into Walrus Ward)

• Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)

• Parrot Ward
  (neurology, now moved into Koala Ward)

• Penguin Ward
  (dermatology, rheumatology)

• Peter Pan Ward
  (ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgery, plastic surgery, maxillofacial)

• Rainforest Ward
  (gastroenterology, endocrinology, metabolic medicine)

• Robin Ward
  (immunology, infectious diseases)

• Safari Day Care
  (day care and outpatients, haematology, oncology)

• Sky Ward
  (orthopaedic and spinal surgery, opthalmology)

• Squirrel Ward
  (general surgery, neurology)

• Starfish Rapid Assessment Neurology Unit (RANU)
  (neurology)

• Tiger Ward
  (neurology, now moved into Koala Ward)

• Urodynamics Day Care
  (day case investigations for urology and all specialties)

• Victoria Ward
  (renal, now moved into Eagle Ward)

• Walrus Ward
  (clinical investigations)