Supporting seriously ill children and their families on the toughest journeys of their lives
Why we need your vote OUR NEED
Year on year, the charity is unable
Children travel from all parts of the UK to receive life-saving treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital
to fund everything that the hospital desperately needs. But with your support, we can help our hospital to save more young lives.
OUR FAMILIES
We believe in caring not only for our remarkable patients, but for their whole families. Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity looks after UK families throughout the toughest journey of their lives by providing accommodation and other invaluable support. For many young patients and their families, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is their last hope.
OUR HOSPITAL
Great Ormond Street Hospital
GOSH is one of the world’s leading children’s research hospitals. The hospital treats thousands of seriously ill young people from around the UK every year, many of whom have been referred to GOSH only after their condition has
The impact of your support
become so critical that their local
£44 – could fund a night’s stay in family accommodation, so parents
hospital is no longer able to look
who have travelled from all over the country can be close to their child
after them.
when it’s critical.
OUR PARTNERSHIP
£1,018 – covers the costs of a sofa bed for a parent on the infectious
Our Play team at the hospital are
diseases ward, so that they can stay at their child’s bedside and comfort
among the world’s best at creating
them during their recovery.
a relaxed and comfortable environment under the most
£13,504 – could fund a vital signs monitor, which is crucial in intensive
stressful situations. We want to
care units for alerting doctors to any complications in a child’s condition
introduce an innovative training
that need immediate action.
programme for Monarch staff to care for sick or anxious children
£100,000 – could buy a complex, specialist machine that detects
and their families on holiday.
life-threatening diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, in new-born children.
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THE YEAR
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