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Staying with your child at GOSH
We know it can be stressful when your child is in hospital, so we encourage one parent to stay with them all the time if possible. This means you can keep to your normal routines as far as possible and your child will be reassured to have you with them.
Staying with your child
We guarantee that one parent will be able to stay with your child at GOSH. Depending on your child’s ward, this may be at their bedside in a recliner chair or fold out bed. We will always offer somewhere to one parent to stay overnight.
We keep a ‘waiting list’ for the other parent – if there is space in our accommodation units by the evening, we will offer them somewhere to stay as well but can’t guarantee this. We will also have to review what space is available from day to day so cannot guarantee that the same space will be available so you may need to move rooms.
If it would be unsafe for you to stay by your child’s bedside, for instance on intensive care or high dependency units, we will arrange somewhere to stay for two parents in one of our Family Accommodation Units.
GOSH Patient Hotel
We can offer somewhere to stay the night before a day or inpatient admission. This is in the Patient Hotel in Weston House on Great Ormond Street (opposite the main hospital site).
Staying here means that families can come to London the day before, have a good night’s sleep and then cross the road to the main hospital in time for their child’s admission. We give priority to families who live outside the M25.
If Weston House if fully booked, we will make sure you have somewhere to stay in the local area – we will tell you this when you check in at reception
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The Sick Children’s Trust
In addition to GOSH Family Accommodation Units, we also work closely with The Sick Children’s Trust, which provides accommodation and support close to GOSH.
The Sick Children’s Trust is a charity (Registered Charity No. 284416), separate from GOSH, founded in 1982 with the aim of providing high-quality ‘Homes from Home’ for families whose children are receiving hospital treatment for serious illnesses. Their homes have the additional support of house staff who welcome families and provide them with much needed support during their stay.
The Sick Children’s Trust rooms are mainly for parents of children and young people on one of the intensive care or high dependency units. When your child moves to a ward where you can stay at the bedside, we will ask you to move out of The Sick Children’s Trust home to make space for another family.