Procedures and treatments

Preparing a child for a procedure or treatment can be an anxious occasion. Great Ormond Street Hospital have produced a number of factsheets to help explain what will happen and what to expect.

Joint injections

Information about joint injections at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Keeping your child's bladder healthy

This information from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) explains how to keep your child’s bladder healthy, reducing the risk of urinary tract infections and other problems with weeing.

Keeping your child’s bowels healthy

This page from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) explains how to keep your child’s bowels healthy, reducing the risk of constipation and other problems with pooing.

Kelly procedure (soft tissue reconstruction of the bladder neck)

This page from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) explains the Kelly procedure used to construct and strengthen the sphincter at the bladder neck following the initial closure of bladder exstrophy and what to expect when your child is admitted to GOSH fo

Ketogenic diet: overview

This page from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) provides information about the ketogenic diet. This is a medical therapy for drug-resistant epilepsy. The ketogenic diet can be effective at reducing seizure frequency and intensity in all types of epilep