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New specialist gender service starts

10 Apr 2024, 9 a.m.

A new specialist service for children and young people who need gender-related care and support from the NHS has opened.

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GOSH researchers receive prestigious award

22 Mar 2024, noon

We're delighted to announce that Professor Dame Helen Cross and Professor Mark Peters have been named NIHR Senior Investigators in this year’s prestigious award list, making them among the most prominent and prestigious researchers funded by the NIHR.

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Raising awareness on Rare Disease Day

8 Mar 2024, 12:04 p.m.

To celebrate Rare Disease Day we invited patients and their families to try out 13 different hands-on and interactive fun and educational science and research activities for children and adults.

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Take part in our young person's art competition

4 Mar 2024, 10:50 a.m.

We are asking GOSH patients to help us by designing artwork to feature on the young persons section of the GOSH website.

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Conjoined twins Marieme and Ndeye feature in new documentary

20 Feb 2024, 1 p.m.

Conjoined twins Marieme and Ndeye feature in new documentary

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Launching our Patient Safety Incident Reporting Plan (PSIRP)

20 Feb 2024, 4 p.m.

Today, GOSH has launched its new Patient Safety Incident Reporting Plan (PSIRP). This plan outlines how we as an organisation will look at patient safety incidents.

The new Great Ormond Street Hospital Entrance on Guilford Street. A large glass covered building now decorated with floral artwork.

GOSH main entrance has now moved

19 Feb 2024, 10:04 a.m.

The main entrance on Great Ormond Street is now closed and the new entrance can now be found at The Morgan Stanley Clinical Building, on Guilford Street. This is the best entrance for most people with an appointment or admission in the main hospital.

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30 years of GOSH's front entrance

19 Feb 2024, 10 a.m.

We've gathered a selection of photos to mark the closure of GOSH's front entrance.

A young boy cycles enthusiastically on a smoothie bike in the Lagoon, supported by a GOSH member of staff.

Patients, families and staff mark International Childhood Cancer Day

15 Feb 2024, noon

With five children in the UK diagnosed with cancer each day and 1400 children treated at GOSH each year (2021/22), our nursing, physiotherapy and dietetics team have come together with GOSH Charity to mark this important day with patients and families.

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172 years of leaps in medical science at GOSH

14 Feb 2024, 6 a.m.

Today on Wednesday 14 February, GOSH is celebrating its 172nd birthday. With 2024 being a leap year, we wanted to look back at some of the leaps that we have made in medical science over the past 172 years

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Creating new homes for GOSH services based in the Frontage Building

9 Feb 2024, 2:34 p.m.

Over a number of years, GOSH have been gradually moving clinical services out of the Frontage Building so that later in 2024, it can be deconstructed, creating space for our new Children’s Cancer Centre to be built.

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GOSH welcomes the Children and Young People Cancer Taskforce

6 Feb 2024, 4:47 p.m.

Great Ormond Street Hospital was the setting for the announcement of a new Children and Young People Cancer Taskforce as part of the World Cancer awareness day.

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GOSH and Middlesex University launch Paediatric Academic Education Initiative

22 Jan 2024, 9:40 a.m.

We're delighted to announce a new partnership between Great Ormond Street Hospital’s Learning Academy and Middlesex University supporting academic education and career development for paediatric healthcare professionals.

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Kinder cancer treatment tested at Great Ormond Street Hospital

17 Jan 2024, 7:05 a.m.

Doctors are testing a ‘game-changing’ Leukaemia treatment for children who can’t have chemotherapy

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Works start soon for the Children's Cancer Centre

8 Jan 2024, 5 p.m.

Together with our building contractor John Sisk and Son, we've officially confirmed that work to enable the development of our Children’s Cancer Centre (CCC) will start in 2024.

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Nurse consultant awarded MBE in New Year's Honours

30 Dec 2023, 8 a.m.

A nurse who dedicated her entire career to GOSH’s neurosurgical department has been awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours list

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Saying farewell to our Frontage Building

7 Dec 2023, 5 p.m.

Last night, we gave a heartwarming farewell to our iconic main entrance at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Frontage Building.

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Chief Executive Mat Shaw to take up additional role

4 Dec 2023, 5 p.m.

The Chief Executive of Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), Mat Shaw, has become Whittington Health NHS Trust’s Interim Accountable Officer. This role is in addition to his role at GOSH.

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GOSH poem celebrates 75 years of the NHS

24 Nov 2023, 4 p.m.

GOSH staff have shared how much working in the NHS means to them in a new poem to mark the 75-year anniversary of the service.

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GOSH patients take part in organ donation campaign

21 Nov 2023, 8:45 p.m.

GOSH patients are taking part in a campaign to raise awareness about paediatric organ donation.