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 THE HOSPITAL IN GREAT ORMOND STREET, BLOOMSBURY, 1859-1895. - THE HISTORY OF THE LONDON HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL - ...
Great Ormond Street, like Queen Square, was built at the beginning of the eighteenth century, with fine houses, each with its large garden at the back.
It was from here that the Great Seal was stolen in 1784, and though some say that the thieves were disturbed, and others that they got clear away with their booty, it is certain that the Great Seal was never discovered, and a new one was ordered immediately to be made.
Perhaps the most interesting of all the old houses in Great Ormond Street were those standing on each side of Powis Place, one where the celebrated and learned Dr. Mead lived for many years, and died in 1754, and the other, formerly numbered 52, the home of the Macaulays.
www.homeoint.org /morrell/londonhh/grormon1.htm   (2083 words)

  
 A lesson in healing from Peter Pan At London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, education is used to help sick children @ ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hospital schools are common in industrialized countries, but this one tackles some of the toughest cases with rare innovation and spirit.
At Great Ormond Street, the fun and the one-on-one teaching push the quality of education to exceptionally high levels, even though many of the children have severe learning disabilities.
Flynn recalled a six-year-old boy who was in hospital with a digestive disorder for the better part of a year and attended hospital school the whole time.
www.workopolis.com /servlet/Content/qprinter/20040525/SICKKIDS25   (954 words)

  
 BBC News | HEALTH | Great Ormond Street Hospital: Factfile
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children is 150 years old on Thursday.
Great Ormond Street Hospital is a world-famous centre for the treatment of sick children.
Great Ormond Street has a hospital school for long-term patients, and a play centre for patients and siblings.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/1818288.stm   (351 words)

  
 BBC News | HEALTH | History of Great Ormond Street
Although the hospital plan was backed by such social luminaries as Charles Dickens and Lady Byron, many felt the causes of death and disease, such as the extreme poverty, should be addressed instead.
The first purpose-built hospital building, designed by Edward Barry, was completed in 1875, and three years later, the Charles West School of Nursing was founded followed 20 years later by the Great Ormond Street Hospital Medical School.
Last year, Great Ormond Street saw the opening of its gene therapy laboratory, and clinical trials of gene therapy began at the hospital.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/1818408.stm   (457 words)

  
 C20th - Peter Pan - GOSH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is situated in Bloomsbury, near the site of London's Foundling Hospital, established in 1747 by Thomas Coram, a merchant sailor who was moved by the sight of abandoned babies in the streets.
Today, the hospital is a leading centre of paediatric medicine and expertise which, together with its partner the Institute of Child Health, is dedicated to the treatment and cure of childhood illness and disease, both in the UK and worldwide.
Great Ormond Street Hospital has its own Peter Pan statue, a wonderful mural and a plaque in the chapel, as well as wards and wings named for Sir James and his most famous creation.
www.c20th.com /ppgosh.htm   (1011 words)

  
 THE SECOND HOSPITAL IN GREAT ORMOND STREET, 1895-1909 - THE HISTORY OF THE LONDON HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL - Presented by ...
In Great Ormond Street, in 1890, the last complete year in the old building, its in-patients were 830, its out-patients 10,363, total 11,103.
The money to build the new Hospital having been provided with a readiness and rapidity which surprised all but those who knew the nature of the good done among the poor by the Hospital, a host of important questions arose with regard to the structure to be raised.
The Hospital was planned in three main blocks with three rear towers, each block separated from its rear tower by air spaces bridged by covered and cross-ventilated corridors.
www.homeoint.org /morrell/londonhh/grormon2.htm   (1745 words)

  
 GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL Launches First Ever Writing Prize For Children   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity launches Write4GOSH on 24 September - the first writing prize to reward child writers, rather than adults writing for children - with award-winning children's author, Jacqueline Wilson.
Write4GOSH: The Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Writing Prize, is a national competition open to children aged six to 16.
The competition theme is to 'cheer up a child in hospital', by inviting children to write stories either about their own experiences or from their fertile imagination.
www.parents.org.uk /comp_gosh.htm   (204 words)

  
 Gallery - click through 150 years of history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A doctor might be called at great expense and while he might predict the course of the illness he often did not have the drugs or knowledge to cure the illness.
A ward in the first custom-built hospital which opened in 1875 and was known as the Hospital in the Garden because it was built in the garden of number 49 Great Ormond Street.
This iron lung, presented to the hospital in 1933, was a state-of-the-art respirator for patients suffering from infantile paralysis.
cich.ich.ucl.ac.uk /150/gallery.html   (1318 words)

  
 GuernseyGOSH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Great Ormond Street Hospital has a special relationship with Guernsey, being one of only three paediatric centres that Guernsey and other Channel Island children are referred to.
GOSH currently has 153 bedrooms for parents and 125 beds on the wards.
Directly opposite the hospital the planned eight-storey `Patient Hotel' will comprise of 30 patient rooms, eight transitional care flats for recovering children who no longer require a bed on a ward, and the Great Ormond Street Hospital Education and Training Centre, including lecture theatre and seminar rooms.
www.guernseygosh.com   (682 words)

  
 Child transplant milestone at Great Ormond Street
The world famous Great Ormond Street Hospital in central London, UK celebrated its 100th lung and 200th heart transplant yesterday.
The children’s hospital is the largest paediatric cardiothoracic transplant centre in Europe, carrying out 30 heart and lung transplants on children each year.
Professor Martin Elliott, head of cardiothoracic surgery at the hospital, was part of the original team that undertook the first procedure - a heart transplant on a boy with congenital heart disease.
www.staffnurse.com /nursing-news-articles/child-transplant-milestone-at-great-ormond-street-1303.html   (235 words)

  
 CreditCall - Telephony & Media   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Great Ormond Street Hospital fully meets the government’s Patient Power directive, which states that by the end of 2004 every major hospital should have a bedside phone.
The Great Ormond Street Hospital telecoms department and the CreditCall technical team worked together closely to ensure the project was delivered on time and within budget.
Alan Smith, of Great Ormond Street Hospital, said: “This is a major step forward in patient choice by fulfilling the modern need for young people to stay in touch with their family and friends, especially as mobile phones are not permitted on our hospital’s premises.
www.creditcall.com /telephony/telephony_news.php?articleId=99   (631 words)

  
 If this happened to Great Ormond Street Hospital, Tony Blair would be lynched - Evening Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In every sense, the Yorkhill hospitals are national concerns, handling some of the most difficult cases in the land.
Gt Ormond Street is a wonderful hospital which must remain forever.
Like Gt Ormond Street, the Yorkhill hospitals have been front-runners in developing techniques and technology capable of saving, improving and enhancing little lives.
www.eveningtimes.co.uk /lo/features/7009658.html   (745 words)

  
 Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust was established in 1994.
To improve the health of children by being a leading centre of excellence in Europe for specialist paediatric services and for research, evaluation and education in the field of child health.
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust and the Institute of Child Health together form the largest paediatric training and research centre in the UK.
www.nursingnetuk.com /employerdetails/54   (243 words)

  
 Christian News, Updated Daily - Christian Today > Great Ormond Street Charity Launches New Campaign
Great Ormond Street Hospital is hoping to sign new charity donors with a DRTV advertisement.
Although the hospital is NHS-funded, children who suffer from the rarest, most complex and often life-threatening conditions receive only the best medical care, and the NHS funding cannot meet the ever-rising costs.
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity aims to raise over £20 million this year to boost the NHS funding.
www.christiantoday.com /news/life/great.ormond.street.hospital.childrens.charity.launches.new.campaign/234.htm   (554 words)

  
 Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Children are referred to the Hospital from all over the UK and from abroad with the rarest, most complex and often life-threatening conditions.
The Hospital and UCL ICH work in partnership to develop a better understanding of, and treatments for, childhood conditions.
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity raises funds for the Hospital and the UCL ICH.
www.jeansforgenes.com /2_about/2003_aboutgosh.php   (462 words)

  
 Peter Pan and Wendy
When Peter Pan flies in through the Darling children's nursery in search of his shadow, the scene is set for a classic tale that has captured the imagination of children and adults for one hundred years.
To celebrate the centenary of the first public performance of Peter Pan in 1904, this magnificent new edition, complete and unabridged, is published in collaboration with Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, to which J.M. Barrie donated his copyright to Peter Pan.
To celebrate the centenary of the first performance of Peter Pan in 1904, Templar are delighted to be publishing the only official Centenary edition of the timeless classic, produced in association with and endorsed by Great Ormond Street Hospital.
www.peterpanandwendy.com   (585 words)

  
 Gulf Times Newspaper - Qatar, Gulf and World News - Britain/Ireland
Great Ormond Street was forced to reduce the number of operations it carried out as it had been treating more patients than planned and the NHS organisations that allocate funds for treatment could not afford to keep paying the hospital.
Great Ormond Street Hospital Trust is one of 70 with deficits totalling آ£350mn after the government signalled it would not bail out hospitals that ran into debt.
Great Ormond Street, which has a budget of آ£178mn, got into financial problems earlier this year.
www.gulf-times.com /site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=37662&version=1&template_id=38&parent_id=20   (924 words)

  
 Great Ormond Street Hospital   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Great Ormond Street Hospital is one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals.
Every year, more than 100,000 children from all over the country and abroad are cared for by the hospital’s specialised doctors and nurses.
With your help, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity aims to raise £45,000 through the Great North Run to help fund a Transitional Care Unit to house non-acute children and their families whilst being treated at the hospital.
www.greatrun.org /runners_services/charity_description.asp?id=43   (105 words)

  
 Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and UCL Institute of Child Health
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and UCL Institute of Child Health
This is the joint website of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust (GOSH) and UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH).
GOSH has launched a new nurse-led day unit that provides rapid access for children with confirmed or suspected infectious diseases to investigations, opinions and treatments.
www.ich.ucl.ac.uk   (156 words)

  
 Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust HQ Site Summary Information
Great Ormond Street Hospital is a specialist children's hospital.
Our mission is to improve the health of children by being a leading centre of excellence in Europe for specialist paediatric services and for research, evaluation and education in the field of child health.
The hospital is in a parking meter zone and parking is restricted.
www.nhs.uk /england/hospitals/showHospital.aspx?id=RP401   (360 words)

  
 Great Ormond street eye specialist takes expertise to China to save children’s sight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
An eye specialist from Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children is volunteering his expertise next week to help ORBIS in their fight against childhood blindness in China.
The Great Ormond Street pair will teach local medical professionals how to correctly detect problems with children’s eyes and the surgical skills and techniques to correct them.
Through the ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital and hospital-based programmes medical volunteers from all over the world give up their time to pass on valuable skills and knowledge to local medical professionals.
www.ukorbis.org /bins/print_page.asp?cid=10-120-398   (737 words)

  
 Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity | uksponsorship.com - 20.5.2003 | cause-related sponsorship | UK | ...
For over 150 years, Great Ormond Street Hospital has been a provider of world-class specialist paediatric care, research and training.
Every year, the hospital's specialised doctors and nurses care for around 90,000 children from all over country.
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity is asked to raise £20 million each year to keep the hospital at the cutting edge of paediatric medicine.
www.uksponsorship.com /a460.htm   (211 words)

  
 Project HappyChild Directory of organizations helping children - 1011-1020
Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital is dedicated to the prevention and treatment of disease in children.
The hospital offers the widest range of paediatric expertise under one roof in Britain, providing specialist care for children who often have very rare, complex and life-threatening disorders.
We aim to raise £12 million pounds every year for research and development of new and better treatments, to replace outdated equipment in the Hospital and to provide accommodation and support services for families and staff.
www.happychild.org.uk /dir/1011plus.htm   (849 words)

  
 Stanford Center for Internet and Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The press is reporting a dispute between GOSH and Disney over the publishing of a Peter Pan “prequel” — entitled Peter and the Starcatchers — by Disney’s subsidiary (Hyperion).
GOSH argues that the Federal Court in California has no jurisdiction over it for this dispute between an English hospital and a Canadian author.
But the Hospital cannot use the later work of Barrie to extend protection of the characters in the 1902 book and keep people from writing new books about those characters.
cyberlaw.stanford.edu /about/cases/emily_somma_v_gosh_peter_.shtml   (2784 words)

  
 Smallfolk.com press releases and news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For every £1 spent on products, Smallfolk.com will donate 5p to the Hospital’s Children’s Charity and the exclusive partnership promises to yield up to £50,000 in the first two years for the Hospital’s work with sick children.
Great Ormond Street Hospital was the ideal partner.
They provide high quality information and also enable us to help support sick children and their families in the process.’ Initially, Smallfolk.com is being launched for the UK parenting community, but within a year it plans to be a multi-lingual website across the European Community.
www.smallfolk.com /pressroom/gosh_press.shtml   (504 words)

  
 Telemedicine and Telehealth Programs
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has a sophisticed telemedicine system with permanently installed facilities in the cardiac catheter lab, cardiac operating theatres and cardiac seminar room (with dual large screens and full duplex audio - seating 30).
In addition, regular clinical consultations are undertaken with John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford UK during the Joint Cardiac Conference (held weekly).
Great Ormond Street Hospital has other facilities in addition to Cardiac Services, including a video conferencing suite, featuring multicast capabilities, operated by Medical Illustration.
tie.telemed.org /europe/programs/showprogram_t2.asp?item=2795   (264 words)

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