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Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children

Region: London North
Trust: Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Services provided: Congenital Surgery

Great Ormond Street
Great Ormond Street
London
WC1N 3JH

About us

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is an international centre of excellence in child healthcare. Together with our research partner, the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, we host the UK’s only paediatric National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).

Since its formation in 1852, the hospital has been dedicated to children’s healthcare and to finding new and better ways to treat childhood illnesses.

What we do

Great Ormond Street Hospital receives 237,908 outpatient visits and 43,218 inpatient visits every year (figures from 2018/19). Most of the children we care for are referred from other hospitals throughout the UK and overseas. There are 63 different clinical specialties at GOSH; the UK's widest range of specialist health services for children on one site. More than half of our patients are referred to us from outside London and a small proportion come from overseas. GOSH is the largest paediatric centre in the UK for:

  • paediatric intensive care
  • cardiac surgery - we are one of the largest heart transplant centres for children in the world
  • neurosurgery - we carry out about 60 per cent of all UK operations for children with epilepsy
  • paediatric cancer services including bone marrow transplants – with University College London Hospitals (UCLH), we are one of the largest centres in Europe for children with cancer
  • nephrology and renal transplants
  • children treated from overseas in our International and Private Patient (IPP) wing

Contact

Tel: 020 7405 9200

Trust Website: https://www.gosh.nhs.uk

 

Congenital Surgery

The Cardiorespiratory Unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) provides a complete spectrum of child heart surgery services for children with congenital and acquired heart disease, as well as specialist activity in tracheal surgery, thoracic surgery and heart and heart-lung transplantation.In recent years, we have treated more children with congenital heart disease than ever before, and with excellent results. In 2010/11, we carried out 511 cases of cardio-pulmonary bypass and an additional 137 cases off bypass.

The thoracic service is an integral part of GOSH and has expanded into one of the biggest referral centres in the UK. The service has been at the forefront of techniques which have improved the care we deliver to our patients, for example the introduction of thoracoscopic operations.

We treat a wide range of thoracic conditions and have great expertise in managing complex congenital thoracic anomalies. We have developed a multidisciplinary platform for oncological management.

Our aim is to continue to provide a child heart surgery service that is recognised internationally and to continue participating in improvements in the care of children requiring this surgical management.

Consultants

Outcomes Audits

This hospital has been a part of the following outcomes audits, please click on any outcomes audit to see their data:

National Congenital Heart Disease Audit (NCHDA) – 2020 Summary Report (2018/2019 Data)

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