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GOSH statement following further coverage on the Independent’s website today

20 Nov 2020, 7:50 p.m.

A further story today on the online newspaper the Independent’s website states our Chief Executive has admitted in two emails to staff that the hospital had “got used to some bad behaviours” and more needed to be done to address bullying and harassment.

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GOSH statement following coverage on the Independent’s website today

19 Nov 2020, 5:48 p.m.

A story today on the online newspaper the Independent’s website makes the serious allegation that Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) tried to cover up the preventable death of patient Jasmine Hughes and deliberately misled the coroner and the General Med

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Back in lockdown: adjusting to the new rules: information for families

18 Nov 2020, 11:25 a.m.

We knew that 2020 was going to be a strange year and it’s certainly feeling like the weirdness isn’t coming to an end yet. Now that England is back in lockdown (other parts of the UK have been in lockdown or faced restrictions already), it is understandab

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GOSH surgeons perform revolutionary eye gene therapy

17 Nov 2020, 4:03 p.m.

(Image above taken pre-COVID-19) Surgeons at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) have carried out pioneering eye gene therapy treatment for rare form of genetic blindness following 10 years of research.

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Inflammatory syndrome in children is not caused by a special strain of coronavirus

16 Nov 2020, 1:38 p.m.

The world’s first genetic study of coronavirus from children with inflammatory syndrome PIMS-TS, led by researchers at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH), suggests characteristics of the human host, rather than of the virus itself

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