Ward and admissions information

There are 31 wards, departments and units at Great Ormond Street Hospital, all caring for children with complex and rare conditions.

For more details on your ward, click on the relevant link below: 

• Badger Ward
  (respiratory)

• Bumblebee Ward
  (international and private patients)

• Butterfly Ward
  (international and private patients)

• Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)
  (cardiac critical care)

• Caterpillar Outpatients
  (international and private patients)

• Dinosaur Ward
  (same day pre-admission unit)

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

• Elephant Ward
  (haematology, oncology)

• Fox Ward
  (bone marrow transplant)

• Hippo Dialysis Unit
  (dialysis)

• Island Day Unit
  (day care surgery)

• Kingfisher Ward
  (gastroenterology inpatients)

• Ladybird Ward
  (cardiac low and high dependency unit)

• 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)

• Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)

• Parrot Ward
  (neurosurgery)

• Penguin Ward
  (dermatology, rheumatology)

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

• Rainforest Ward
  (gastroenterology, endocrinology, metabolic medicine)

• Respiratory Sleep Unit
  (sleep studies)

• Robin Ward
  (immunology, infectious diseases)

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

• Sky Ward
  (orthopaedic and spinal surgery, ophthalmology)

• Squirrel Ward
  (general surgery, neurology)

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

• Tiger Ward
  (acute neuromedical, craniofacial, epilepsy telemetry)

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

• Victoria Ward
  (renal)