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Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
The Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is also known as Seahorse Ward, has 17 beds and is for children and young people who need special care for serious medical or surgical conditions.
We have a small number of cubicles, but most beds are on in the open ward.
Around 900 children a year are treated on PICU.
Location
Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
Level 4, Variety Club Building
Great Ormond Street hospital, Great Ormond Street
London
WC1N 3JH
If your child has any additional needs, please call in advance to let us know.
Contact
PICU Ward telephone number: 020 7829 8808
Who you will meet
PICU is led by a team of consultants (doctors), who specialise in intensive care of children.
Key staff
- Speciality Lead: Sophie Skellet
- Matron: Deborah Lees
- Family Liaison Sisters: Esther Rose, Emily Cantrell and Katie Dettmer
- Play Specialist: Lizzie Penn
Other staff who work on the ward include doctors, nurse practitioners, ward sisters, nurses, students, health care assistants, ventilator technicians, physiotherapists, dieticians, pharmacists, housekeepers, family liaison nurses, play specialists, psychologists, social workers, chaplains, interpreters and volunteers.
Conditions we treat
PICU treats patients with a variety of different serious medical and surgical conditions that require intensive care support.
Specialties
You can learn more about our clinical services by visiting:
Facilities
Important information
GOSH is a smoke-free zone, which means that you cannot smoke anywhere inside hospital property and adjacent areas, such as entrances to hospital buildings.
We will not tolerate any kind of inappropriate or threatening behaviour – verbal, physical or psychological – and we have a policy to ensure that this is dealt with appropriately. We can and will remove people from GOSH in these circumstances.
