Latest press releases

The latest Great Ormond Street Hospital press releases are collected here. For our general news and feature pieces, please access our news area.

GOSH patient Daniel sitting at home on his sofa with his dog, mum, and dad

Patients with severe form of immune condition are treated using gene therapy

21 Apr 2015, midnight

Patients with the most severe form of the immune condition Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome have been successfully treated using gene therapy at GOSH.

GOSH patients feature in ITV documentary ‘Raining in my Heart’

15 Apr 2015, 11:10 a.m.

A one-off documentary, broadcast tonight on ITV, is set to follow three GOSH patients over two years while they are being treated at the hospital for rare and high risk cancers.

Death rates for children’s heart surgery have almost halved over past decade in England

9 Apr 2015, 2:34 p.m.

Significantly more children are now surviving their first month after heart surgery, according to new research funded by Great Ormond Street Hospital’s Children’s Charity.

Child, Keano, smiling and sitting up on hospital bed holding stuffed teddy and lizard. There is a game next to him on the bed.

BBC documentary on Great Ormond Street returns for a third series

7 Apr 2015, 1:08 p.m.

BBC Two’s BAFTA-nominated documentary, Great Ormond Street, is set to continue its unprecedented access into the world-renowned children’s hospital with a third series starting on Tuesday, 14 July at 9pm. It will once again follow doctors and families as

Large discrepancies between parental perceptions of child’s weight and official classifications

30 Mar 2015, midnight

Parents of obese children may not be able to recognise that their child is overweight unless they are at very extreme levels of obesity, according to research led by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and UCL Institute of Child Health, research