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NHS work at Great Ormond Street Hospital

3 Jan 2012
Hospital entrance

There has been media speculation about proposed changes to international and private patients seen in any NHS hospital.

Dr Jane Collins, Chief Executive, commented:

“Great Ormond Street Hospital is proud of the work we do for the NHS and for our private patients.  Our private work is largely international, with families funded by foreign governments and healthcare systems to receive care not otherwise available to them.  Revenues generated by this can only be reinvested to the benefit of NHS patients.  This is currently less than ten per cent of our total clinical income.

The lifting of the 'private patient cap' would allow us, as an Foundation Trust, to treat more private patients but also, through reinvestment, to help more NHS patients as well.  However, we have always said that we see ourselves as primarily an NHS hospital and we can’t conceive of a situation where our private income would be as much as half our work.”

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Notes to editors

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust is the country’s leading centre for treating sick children, with the widest range of specialists under one roof.

With the UCL Institute of Child Health, we are the largest centre for paediatric research outside the US and play a key role in training children’s health specialists for the future.

Our charity needs to raise £50 million every year to help rebuild and refurbish Great Ormond Street Hospital, buy vital equipment and fund pioneering research. With your help we provide world class care to our very ill children and their families.

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