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Making Enda better
Kiss it Better is an initiative to raise money for research into the causes and treatment of childhood cancer – the biggest disease affecting children today. Six-year-old Enda spent a significant...
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Fundraising for Great Ormond Street Hospital over 100 years ago
The Hospital for Sick Children, known today as Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), opened in 1852 with just 10 beds. It had ambitions to expand and, in the days long before the NHS and central...
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Researchers find gene responsible for rare condition that can lead to melanomas
The genetic cause of a rare condition, which causes large moles to grow on the skin and brain before birth and which increases the risk of melanoma, has finally been identified in a study led by Dr...
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Keeping a positive attitude
Michelle, 28, was admitted to Great Ormond Street Hospital as a child after being diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. I was eight when I first developed a stiff neck – I was playing outside...
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“Frequent Flyer” cystic fibrosis patients spend less time in hospital
A programme offering physiotherapy, dietary support and personal training sessions to children with cystic fibrosis, was found to reduce the time spent in hospital receiving antibiotics and boost...
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Surviving against the odds
At 7am on New Year’s Eve I was changing my daughter Jasmine’s nappy when I noticed a tiny spot no bigger than a pinhead just above her nappy line. At six weeks, a baby’s skin is so perfect – there...
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Snapshot of a Great Ormond Street Hospital ward: past and present
An important part of our vision at Great Ormond Street Hospital is to provide state-of-the-art facilities for our patients and staff. In this blog we compare the wards in the Morgan Stanley Clinical...
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Milan’s Race for the Kids
Milan’s Mum Harpreet describes Milan’s time at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and how taking part in Race for the Kids last year was their way of saying thank you. Milan started having severe...
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Amniotic fluid stem cells may hold key to healing a fatal gut disease
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is the most common gastrointestinal surgical emergency in newborns, with mortality rates of around 15 to 30 per cent in the UK. But thanks to a study, funded by Great...
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Giving Mia a future
Five-year-old Mia was born with a rare abdominal wall defect called exomphalos. Her mum, Amy, talks about the first months of her life, which were spent at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH)...
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Becoming independent
Three Great Ormond Street Hospital patients helped us produce a short film recently to support patients moving from the hospital to adult services. We spoke to one of the patients, Adam, and found out...
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Being a teenager at Great Ormond Street Hospital
Three Great Ormond Street Hospital patients helped us produce a short film recently to support patients moving from the hospital to adult services. Jack is 13 years old and told us about being a...
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Meet the team: Somers Clinical Research Facility
The Somers Clinical Research Facility (CRF) at Great Ormond Street Hospital provides specialist care for children and young people voluntarily taking part in clinical research studies. Clinical trials,...
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The difference you make to patients like Alice
This year’s RBC Race for the Kids raised a record-breaking £668,660, thanks to the amazing fundraising of 4,000 supporters. The money raised will go towards redeveloping the hospital to give everyone...
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Maisie goes home for the first time
After spending nearly three years of her life in Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), Maisie has finally gone home. Maisie, who turns three on 23 October, has congenital central hypoventilation...
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Patients and staff celebrate National Play in Hospital Week
The Lagoon Restaurant at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) was filled with excitement last week as patients and Play Specialists celebrated National Play in Hospital Week. The Week, organised by the...
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Toby’s recovery
After being involved in a car crash, Toby was referred to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). He had spinal injuries and needed to have a halo fitted in order to protect his bones from any damaging...
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Patient celebrates 25 years of living with transplanted heart and lungs with...
41-year-old Tineke Dixon has celebrated the 25th anniversary of her heart and lung transplant, which she received at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in November 1988 at the age of 16. The hospital...
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My precious daughter, Faith
When Faith’s organs were born outside her body, she had to be rushed to Great Ormond Street Hospital in an incubator. Her mum remembers Faith’s first few weeks of life and the surgeons who helped to...
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A skin prick test that saves lives
Every year at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) 130,000 babies are tested for a group of rare but serious conditions. Already the largest newborn screening centre in the UK, the team at the hospital...
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