Generation R video transcript

Transcript of video about Generation R and the Somer’s Clinical Research Facility at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).

This video can be viewed on the What is the BRC? page or alternatively, you can also watch it on YouTube.

Female voiceover: “Thousands of children around the world are relying on Esme.

“Doctors and scientists will struggle to make a breakthrough without her. New research can’t progress without children like Esme. Why? Because children like her have power, the power to change the lives of other children, the power to nurture medical breakthroughs.

“Who are these children? Ordinary children, doing extraordinary things.”

Esme, patient: “Hello I’m Esme, I’m 16 years old and once every four weeks I come here to gosh to take part in a medical research study.

I meet the team who look after the research and we go to the room where I have my treatments and tests.”

Dr William van’t Hoff, Consultant: “Children are very vital to clinical trials because we can’t take data from adults or other groups and so it’s only by involving children of the relevant ages including new-born babies if necessary that we understand how medicine works in that age group.”

Naomi Antcliff, Senior Research Nurse: “Children are really important when developing clinical trials because we can only develop so much in the lab, so working with the children we can develop the safety and efficiency of the new medicine.”

Dr William van’t Hoff: “Children take part in clinical trials as a voluntary act.

“They’re doing that in order to help the care not perhaps only for themselves but for all other children and that’s an incredible, generous, thing for them to have done.”

Naomi Antcliff: “So when the children come to the Somers Research Facility they have access to everything here, so all of the play facilities, like games,  iPads,  PlayStation and there’s always activities happening in reception.

“I think children helping other children are really inspiring, and they’re coming here and giving up their free time to make a difference.”

Female narrator:  “Thousands of children just like Esme volunteer for medical research. In doing so, they improve and save the lives of other children.”

Esme: “I hope it might help me with my illness but I also want to help other children so we all have better treatments.”

Female narrator: “Ordinary children, doing extraordinary things.”