Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children NHS Trust
Great Ormond Street
London
WC1N 3JH

Tel: 020 7829 8812
Fax: 020 7813 8206

www.gosh.nhs.uk

To view the NICU  parent  information and available leaflets  please click on link below

Admission to NICU

Great Ormond Street Hospital runs as a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). NICUs are sited alongside specialist obstetric and feto-maternal medicine services, and provide the whole range of medical neonatal care for their local population, along with additional care for babies and their families referred from the neonatal network.

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).  There 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 400 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 by car, Train, Underground and Bus services, please click on the link below.

Travelling to Great Ormond Street
Map to Great Ormond Street

The above link will also provide you with information on hospital parking, Congestion Charging and hospital transport.