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International hospital by Saleh, 6

My name is Saleh and I am six years old.

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Animal tales storytelling project

Animal tales is a series of six stories created by patients, families and staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital with the help of writer Sarah Butler.

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Join our free online mindfulness course

19 Dec 2023, noon

If you're feeling overwhelmed or anxious, you might be interested in our eight-week virtual mindfulness course led by Dr Fionna Bathgate, a GOSH clinical psychologist.

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Feedback, concerns and complaints

This webpage explains how to give feedback, raise a concern or make a formal complaint at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). It also explains about Martha’s Rule.

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Harp Tales: Children’s poems and stories

Mark Levin provides live harp music sessions for families at GOSH.

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Aunt Judy’s Cot – Fundraising Origins

GOSH archives

Great Ormond Street Hospital's archive contains documents, photographs and artefacts spanning the hospital's 160-year history.

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Get Active: Terms and Conditions

By attending Get Active 2023: Sports & Activity Day through treatment and beyond! (the “Event”), put on by the Cancer Unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital, you are deemed to have agreed to the following Terms and Conditions:

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Great Ormond Street Hospital cookie policy

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New research analyses key immune cell

28 Mar 2025, 11:16 a.m.

A new study led by researchers at University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health has found that women have a higher proportion of key immune cells between puberty and menopause.

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Free online mindfulness course for parents and carers of GOSH patients

4 Dec 2020, 11:12 a.m.

Join us online for an 8-week journey towards a calmer mind.

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Great Ormond Street Hospital Flu Plan 2020/21

1 Dec 2020, 3:37 p.m.

In light of the risk of flu and COVID-19 co-circulating this winter, the flu immunisation programme this year is more important than ever to protecting vulnerable people and supporting the resilience of the health system. For this reason we have been set

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Cutting-edge genomic technology saves girl from rare brain infection

30 Apr 2025, 8:14 a.m.

Great Ormond Street Hospital has launched the UK’s first accredited ‘metagenomics’ testing service, that allows clinicians to identify infections that are otherwise undetectable.

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Great Ormond Street Hospital study highlights untapped potential of newborn organ donation in the UK

18 Mar 2014, 11:41 a.m.

A ‘significant’ proportion of full-term newborn babies who sadly die in intensive care in the UK could potentially have donated organs to save another child’s life if national guidelines permitted, according to new research carried out at Great Ormond Str

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The Prince of Wales visits Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children

21 Feb 2013, 3:37 p.m.

On Thursday 21 February 2013, HRH The Prince of Wales visited staff, patients and supporters at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH).

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Paraldehyde and olive oil enema

Paraldehyde is a medicine given to treat seizures or status epilepticus. It works by damping down (suppressing) the nervous system so that a seizure will stop. It has a sedative effect so children usually sleep after it has been given.

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New drug treatment saves patients with rare condition from losing pancreas

21 Mar 2014, 4:36 p.m.

A new drug treatment has saved four patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) from having their pancreas removed.

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Training and research

The Tics Service at GOSH provides specialist training for professionals working with children and young people with tics.

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Ichthyosis

Ichthyosis is a term used for a group of conditions that affect the skin, making it rough and scaly. The name comes from the Greek for ‘fish’ as sometimes the skin may look a little bit like fish scales. This page from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH)

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Bird's eye view of hospital's redevelopment

GOSH announces design competition winner for new clinical building

12 Oct 2017, 1:33 p.m.

GOSH announces the winner of architectural design competition for a new clinical building to put ‘the Child First and Always’.

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Developmental Epilepsy Clinic

The Developmental Epilepsy Clinic at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is a multidisciplinary clinic that provides specialist assessment and management of the interaction between complex epilepsy and development.

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