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.

New Director of the UCL Institute of Child Health

21 Jun 2012, 3 p.m.

UCL is pleased to announce that Professor Rosalind Smyth FMedSci, Professor of Paediatric Medicine, University of Liverpool, Executive Director Liverpool Health Partners and Director of NIHR Medicines for Children Research Network, has been appointed to t

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London bus drivers’ strike proposed for Friday 22 June

21 Jun 2012, 10:37 a.m.

The London bus drivers’ strike proposed for Friday 22 June is likely to impact upon the Trust as it will affect staff, patients and families coming to the hospital.

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BMA Industrial Action Thursday 21 June 2012

21 Jun 2012, 9:53 a.m.

The British Medical Association (BMA) have planned Industrial Action. The Trust plans to run as normal a service as possible.

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First example of a heritable abnormality affecting semantic cognition found

20 Jun 2012, 12:52 p.m.

Four generations of a single family have been found to possess an abnormality within a specific brain region which appears to affect their ability to recall verbal material, a new study by researchers at the University of Bristol and University College Lo

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BBC2 Great Ormond Street – part six

19 Jun 2012, 6:27 p.m.

The final part of the series following the patients, families, and clinical teams of Great Ormond Street Hospital aired on Tuesday 19 June at 9pm on BBC2.

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