Great Ormond Street Hospital for
Sick Children NHS Trust
Great Ormond Street
London
WC1N 3JH
Tel: 0207 405
9200
www.gosh.nhs.uk
To view the Parent Information Leaflet for this Unit
please click here.
Great Ormond Street Hospital runs as a Level 3 Unit.
This means that care is provided for babies born at less than 27
weeks and for babies who are seriously ill.
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) was founded in February 1852.
It was the first children's hospital in the English-speaking world,
and it has grown to an internationally famous centre of excellence
in child healthcare. The hospital treats 100,000 patients a year,
both at its central London site and through clinics scattered
across the country. It offers the largest range of children's
medical specialists under one roof, so children with some of the
rarest and most complex problems can be treated. In addition to
its medical care, GOSH researches childhood illness, and plays a
major role in training children's doctors and nurses.
GOSH is the lead centre for paediatric intensive care in North
Thames and a recognised centre for training in paediatric intensive
care medicine. The intensive care unit is one of the largest for
children in the UK and Europe.
The area is separated into 2 units - the Neonatal Intensive Care
Unit (NICU) and the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). We have
a 29-bedded area, built in 1993, on the 4th floor of the Variety
Club building (VCB). The 2 units work closely together allowing
great flexibility and are led by the same medical teams.
In NICU there are 10 funded neonatal cots treating approximately
500 patients per year. There is no obstetric facility within Great
Ormond Street Hospital so this is not a traditional NICU. The NICU
primarily admits general surgical neonates referred from other
hospitals, they are often preterm babies but not necessarily
so.
Newborn babies not requiring intensive care may be treated on
any of the specialist wards throughout the hospital.
The hospital has close links with UCLH, (the perinatal centre
for the North Central Network). Community Midwives from UCLH run
'drop-in' clinics for post-natal mums who still require midwifery
care, whilst resident in parent accommodation at GOSH. This
midwifery support is a valuable service offered to mums who wish to
stay with their babies at GOSH.
GETTING TO GREAT ORMOND STREET
HOSPITAL
For information on how to get to Great Ormond
Street Hospital using the Underground, Rail and Bus services,
please click on the link below.
Travelling to
Great Ormond Street
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Congestion Charging information.
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hospital.