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Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children International and Private Care

📍 London

Tertiary referral hospital · founded 1939 · private

About

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is an international centre of excellence in child healthcare and one of the the world's best-known and loved children's hospitals. Our mission is to provide world-class clinical care and training, pioneering new research and treatments in partnership with others for the benefit of children in the UK and worldwide.In everything we do, we work hard to live up to our three core values: pioneering, world-class and collaborative. Across our departments and divisions we have a shared vision to produce world leading patient-orientated research. We are always striving to develop new research and treatments across the breadth of paediatric specialities. Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children is fully committed to conducting high quality research in collaboration with our various academic and industry partners. Great Ormond Street Hospital is one of the world's finest centres for heart transplant surgery. In addition, as the country's largest hospital for paediatric neurosurgery, it delivers cancer services, renal care, and intensive care, all for children.At GOSH, our research teams are consistently amongst the best in the world in their disciplines. The Great Ormond Street Hospital's highly skilled researchers, with the support of the entire Trust's workforce, are using cutting-edge techniques and equipment.We are committed to carrying out pioneering research to find treatments and cures for some of the most complex illnesses, for the benefit of children here in the UK and worldwide. Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH) were awarded NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) status in 2007, and had the award renewed in 2011. This was in recognition of the research conducted in the organisation. We are the only paediatric BRC in the UK.

Legal name
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children International and Private Care
Governance
Board of directors · CEO appointed annually
Employees
4,000

Capacity

Total beds 500
ICU 40
NICU 10
PICU 7
OR theatres 16
Delivery rooms 5
ED bays 20
Cath labs 1

Annual volume

Admissions / yr 45,250
Outpatient 250,000
ED visits 40,000
Births 750
Surgeries 12,500

Emergency capabilities

  • Trauma centre — Level I
  • Stroke: Comprehensive Stroke Centre
  • Door-to-balloon: 58 min (AHA target ≤ 90)
  • Door-to-needle (stroke): 27 min

Subspecialty centres

Transplant programmes

  • Cornea

All departments

  • Internal Medicine
  • Surgery
  • Emergency

Quality metrics

MetricValueBenchmark
Risk-adjusted 30d mortality 4.1% EU avg 3.0%
HAI rate per 1000 patient-days 3.6 EU avg 1.8
30d readmission rate 24% EU avg 14%
Patient satisfaction (HCAHPS-like) -10% EU avg 76%

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Patient experience

Room categories
ward · semi-private · private
Meals
standard · halal · kosher · vegan · gluten-free · pediatric
Chaplaincy
Christian · Muslim · Jewish
Private bathroom
private + suite rooms
Wi-Fi
Free in all rooms

Awards & rankings

  • Top hospital — London

    EuroClinics Patient Choice · 2025

Services

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