Great Ormond Street Hospital For Children

New plans involving patients and families

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust (GOSH) has new
plans to involve patients, families, staff, patients and the community
in how we make decisions. This applies equally to the specialist
services we run at our Great Ormond Street site, and the important
local services based at the North Middlesex, and in Haringey.

We have launched a consultation on new plans to involve families and
the local community more in the way the Trust runs its services. This
started on 27th February for 12 weeks and there is information for
adults on www.gosh.nhs.uk/foundation and for children and young people
on www.talk2gosh.nhs.uk . There is also information available on the
sites in 10 community languages. Or email or phone Louise Bounds on
020 7762 6761 foundation@gosh.nhs.uk who will be happy to provide a copy
of the consultation document, including a feedback form for your ideas.

We will be running an open day at the North Middlesex Hospital and the
provisional date for this is Saturday 6th May. Please contact Louise
for further details; we would be delighted to talk to you.

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) now runs the
children's service at the North Middlesex University Hospital,
including Sunrise Special Care Baby Unit, Rainbow children's
in-patient ward, day assessment and outpatient services and a
children's Accident and Emergency Unit. In addition, the service
plays a role in caring for all babies born at North Middlesex.

We also employ the small team of community doctors based in the Child
Development Centre at St Ann's, Haringey. They support children in
the community with complex needs.

GOSH is probably the country's best known children's hospital,
specialising in children with rare and complex conditions. It has the
widest range of children's specialists of any UK hospital and is the
biggest centre for research into childhood illness outside the USA.