Great Ormond Street Hospital
Children's hospital in London, England
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH, formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) is a children's hospital in the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital is situated between Great Ormond Street and Guilford Street, just inside Holborn's traditional boundary with Bloomsbury. The hospital is the largest centre for child heart surgery in Britain and one of the largest centres for heart transplantation in the world. In 1962, it developed the first heart and lung bypass machine for children. With children's book author Roald Dahl, it developed an improved shunt valve for children with hydrocephalus, and non-invasive (percutaneous) heart valve replacements. Great Ormond Street performed the first UK clinical trials of the rubella vaccine, and the first bone marrow transplant and gene therapy for severe combined immunodeficiency. The hospital is the largest centre for research and postgraduate teaching in children's health...
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