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Who are Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH)

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is an international centre of excellence in child healthcare. Every year it receives 237,908 outpatient visits and 43,218 inpatient visits, with most of the children they care being referred from other hospitals throughout the UK and overseas.

What do they do

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