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 to Flamingo Ward)
  
  
• Caterpillar Outpatients
  (international and private patients)
  
  
• Dinosaur Ward
  (same day pre-admission unit)
  
  
• Dragonfly Ambulatory Care
  (haematology, oncology day cases, private patients)
   
• Eagle Ward
  (renal)
  
  
• Elephant Ward
  (haematology, oncology)
  

• Flamingo Ward
  (cardiac intensive care)
  
  
• Fox Ward
  (bone marrow transplant)
  
  
• Hippo Dialysis Unit

          (dialysis, now moved to 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 to 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 to Walrus Ward)
  
  
• Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
  
  
• Parrot Ward
  (neurology, now moved to Koala Ward)
  
  

• 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
  (neurology, now moved to Koala Ward)
  
  
• Urodynamics Day Care
  (day case investigations for urology and other specialties)
  
  
• Victoria Ward

          (renal, now moved to Eagle Ward)

• Walrus Ward
  (clinical investigations)