Great Ormond Street Hospital
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| Great Ormond Street Hospital Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust |
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| Location | |
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| Place | Bloomsbury London, England, (UK) |
| Organisation | |
| Care System | Public NHS |
| Hospital Type | Teaching |
| Affiliated University | UCL Institute of Child Health |
| Services | |
| Emergency Dept. | Yes, runs children's A+E at North Middlesex Hospital |
| Beds | 350 |
| Speciality | Children's hospital |
| History | |
| Founded | 1852 |
| Links | |
| Website | Homepage |
| See also | Hospitals in England |
The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) was founded in London in 1852. There are a few institutions which pre-date it as providing care for children, although not in-patient beds. Great Ormond Street Hospital is thought to be the first hospital providing in-patient beds specifically for children in the English-speaking world. The first purpose-built children's hospital building was the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital in 1873, beating GOSH by two years. Now an NHS Hospital Trust, Great Ormond Street Hospital is still world-renowned for its pioneering work in children's medicine. Due to its ground-breaking work over many years, it is amongst the most famous hospitals in the United Kingdom.
The hospital works with the UCL Institute for Child Health, its medical school, and is the largest centre for research into childhood illness outside the United States, and a major international trainer of doctors and nurses. It has the widest range of children's specialists of any UK hospital, and is the largest centre for children's heart or brain surgery, or children with cancer, in the UK. Recent high profile breakthroughs include successful gene therapy for immune diseases, following a decade of research.
The hospital was recently rated as excellent in its care of children (one of only a handful of trusts to achieve this) and also received an excellent rating from the Healthcare Commission, which only a dozen Trusts achieved.
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[edit] Redevelopment Plans
In 2002 Great Ormond Street commenced a redevelopment program which is budgeted at £343 million and the next phase of which is scheduled to be complete by 2012. The redevelopment is needed to expand capacity, deliver treatment in a more comfortable and modern way, and to reduce unnecessary inpatient admissions.
Great Ormond Street plans to be a foundation trust in the near future.
[edit] Peter Pan copyright
In 1929 the hospital was the recipient of playwright J.M. Barrie's copyright to the Peter Pan works, with the provision that the income from this source not be disclosed. This gave the institution control of the rights to these works, and entitled it to royalties from any performance or publication of the play and derivative works. The hospital's trustees recently commissioned a sequel, Peter Pan in Scarlet, which has been a critical success.
When the copyright originally expired in 1987, 50 years after Barrie's death, the UK government granted the hospital a perpetual right to collect royalties on the work (but not creative control). The UK copyright was subsequently revived in full under an EU directive in 1996 when the term was standardised throughout the European Union to author's life plus 70 years, thus expiring at the end of 2007. GOSH claims that the play itself (but not the novel) remains under copyright protection in the US until 2023 (based on the publication date of the stage play, 17 years after the novel), although this has been disputed by various parties, including the Walt Disney Company[1] and Top Shelf Productions, both of which have published unauthorised derivative works in the United States.
[edit] Museum of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
Great Ormond Street's museum and archive is open by appointment. It covers the history and personalities connected with the hospital since its inception in 1852. The Peter Pan Gallery houses editions of the book from all over the world, in many languages. The museum is a member of the London Museums of Health & Medicine.
Admission records from 1852 to 1914 have been made available online on the Small and Special website. [2]
[edit] GOSHCC
The hospital has relied on charitable support since it first opened. One of the main sources for this support is the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity (GOSHCC), which was set up to help meet the costs not met by the NHS.[3] GOSHCC is now trying to raise over £170 million to complete the next phase of redevelopment, as well as provide substantially more fundraising directly for research. The charity also purchases up-to-date equipment, and provides accommodation for families and staff.[4]
[edit] Jeans for Genes
Great Ormond Street is one of the four charities leading the national Jeans for Genes campaign where everyone across the UK wears their jeans and makes a donation to help children affected by genetic disorders. All Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity's proceeds go to its research partner, the UCL Institute of Child Health.
[edit] External links
- The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and Institute of Child Health
- Joint Hospital and UCL Institute of Child Health website
- Jeans for Genes website
- Museum and archive
- Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity (GOSHCC)
- Small and Special - archive of admission records for The Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street 1852-1941
