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Coordinates: 51°31′21″N 0°07′13″W / 51.5225°N 0.1202°W / 51.5225; -0.1202
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Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Map
Geography
LocationBloomsbury, London, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates51°31′21″N 0°07′13″W / 51.5225°N 0.1202°W / 51.5225; -0.1202
Organisation
Care systemNational Health Service
TypeTeaching
Affiliated universityUniversity College London
Services
Emergency departmentNo Accident & Emergency
Beds387
SpecialityChildren's hospital
History
Opened1852
Links
Websitehttp://www.gosh.nhs.uk/
ListsHospitals in England

Great Ormond Street Hospital (informally GOSH or Great Ormond Street, formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust.

Great Ormond Street Hospital is closely associated with University College London (UCL) and in partnership with the UCL Institute of Child Health, which it is located adjacent to, is the largest centre for research and postgraduate teaching in children’s health in Europe.[1][2][3] It is part of both the Great Ormond Street Hospital/UCL Institute of Child Health Biomedical Research Centre and the UCL Partners academic health science centre.[4][5]

Great Ormond Street Hospital is known internationally for receiving the rights from J. M. Barrie to his play Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up in 1929, which have provided significant funding for the institution.

History

After a long campaign by Dr Charles West, the Hospital for Sick Children was founded on 14 February 1852 and was the first hospital providing in-patient beds specifically for children in the English-speaking world.[6] Despite opening with just 10 beds, it grew into the world's leading children's hospital through the patronage of Queen Victoria, counting Charles Dickens, a personal friend of Dr West, the Chief Physician, as one of its first fundraisers.

Audrey Callaghan, wife of James Callaghan (prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979), served the hospital as Chairman of the Board of Governors from 1968 to 1972 and then as Chairman of the Special Trustees from 1983 until her final retirement in 1990.[7]

Princess Diana served as president of the Hospital from 1989 until her death. A plaque at the entrance of the hospital commemorates her services, as well as a bust in the lobby of the hospital chapel.

The Charles West School of Nursing transferred from Great Ormond Street to London South Bank University in 1995.[8]

In 2002 Great Ormond Street Hospital commenced a redevelopment programme which is budgeted at £343 million and the next phase of which is scheduled to be complete by the end of 2016[9]. 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 Hospital became a foundation trust on 1 March 2012.

In April 2012, BBC One London transmitted a documentary called "Great Ormond Street Hospital", presented by Tim Donovan, which explained how the hospital is facing accusations that it is downgrading child protection work and "victimising" staff who raise concerns.[10][11] The hospital posted a detailed response stating that "the allegations in this programme are not correct and the programme does not provide a balanced position".[12]

In July 2012, Great Ormond Street Hospital was featured in the opening ceremony of the London Summer Olympics.

Activities

The hospital works with the UCL Institute of Child Health, and is the largest centre for research into childhood illness outside the United States and Canada, 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.

Great Ormond Street Hospital is a member of the UCL Partners academic health science centre.

Museum

Great Ormond Street Hospital's museum and archive is open by appointment only. It covers the history and personalities connected with the hospital since its inception in 1852. It also houses editions of Peter Pan 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 Historic Hospital Admission Records Project.[13]

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Nurses League

The Nurses League was formed in February 1937.[14]

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity

The hospital has relied on charitable support since it first opened. One of the main sources for this support is Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity. Whilst the NHS meets the day to day running costs of the hospital, the fundraising income allows Great Ormond Street Hospital to remain at the forefront of child healthcare.[15] The charity is now trying to raise over £170 million to complete the next two phases of redevelopment, as well as provide substantially more fundraising directly for research.[16] The charity also purchases up-to-date equipment, and provides accommodation for families and staff. [17]

The charity's teardrop logo was designed for the Wishing Well Appeal in 1987 by the firm Collett Dickenson Pearce.

Historically, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity was one of the charities that benefited from the national Jeans for Genes campaign, which encourages people across the UK to wear their jeans and make a donation to help children affected by genetic disorders. All Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity's proceeds from the campaign went to its research partner, the UCL Institute of Child Health.

On 6 August 2009, Arsenal F.C. confirmed that Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity was to be their 'charity of the season' for the 2009-10 season. They raised over £800,000 for a new lung function unit at the hospital,[18] having raised £532,816 for Teenage Cancer Trust in the previous season.

Two charity singles have been released in aid of the hospital. In 1987, "The Wishing Well", recorded by an ensemble line-up including Boy George, Peter Cox and Dollar amongst others became a top 30 hit.[19] In 2009, The X Factor finalists covered Michael Jackson's "You Are Not Alone" in aid of the charity, reaching No.1 in the UK Charts.[20]

On 30 March 2010, Channel 4 staged the first Channel 4's Comedy Gala at the O2 Arena in London, in aid of the charity. The event has been repeated every year since, raising money for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity each time.

In April 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. Four theatrical feature films were produced,[21] innumerable performances of the play have been presented, and numerous editions of the novel were published under licence from the hospital. Its trustees commissioned a sequel novel, Peter Pan in Scarlet, which was published in 2006 and received mixed but generally positive reviews,[22][23] with a film adaptation planned.[24]

When the copyright originally expired at the end of 1987, 50 years after Barrie's death, the UK government granted the hospital a perpetual right to collect royalties for public performances, commercial publication, or other communications to the public of the work.[25] The UK copyright was subsequently extended through 2007 by a European Union directive in 1996 standardising terms throughout the EU to the author's life plus 70 years. GOSH has been in legal disputes in the United States, where the copyright term is based on date of publication, putting the 1911 novel in the public domain, although the Hospital asserts that the 1928 version of the play is still under copyright in the U.S.[26] Legal opinion as to whether or not permission is required for new works based on the story and characters is divided and open to interpretation and so far, there has been no legal precedent to prove one view or the other.[27]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Britain's best hospitals: A patients' guide". The Independent. 20 March 2008. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
  2. ^ "Welcome Message". UCL Institute of Child Health. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  3. ^ "Biomedical Research Centre". Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  4. ^ "Research and development". Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  5. ^ "About us". UCL Partners. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  6. ^ Patrick S. Pasquariello; Tessa Hilton, (1999). The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Book of Pregnancy and Child Care. John Wiley. p. xvii. ISBN 0-471-32012-9, 9780471320128. Retrieved 5 January 2012. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  7. ^ The Independent. London http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lady-callaghan-of-cardiff-530403.html. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ^ "Complete history of GOSH". Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
  9. ^ "The New Clinical Building (Phase 2B)". Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  10. ^ Great Ormond Street Hospital 'victimising concerned staff'
  11. ^ "Great Ormond Street Hospital" - BBC One London documentary 18 April 2012
  12. ^ Response to BBC London programme
  13. ^ Historic Hospital Admission Records Project
  14. ^ "www.gosnursesleague.org". Retrieved 2009-09-25.
  15. ^ "GOSH.org". Archived from the original on 2007-07-20. Retrieved 2007-07-25.
  16. ^ "What's happening now". Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  17. ^ "Why we need your help". Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  18. ^ "Arsenal.com". Retrieved 30 March 2012.
  19. ^ Chartstats - "The Wishing Well" UK Chart details
  20. ^ Chartstats - "You Are Not Alone" UK Chart details
  21. ^ films_based_on_Peter_Pan at Neverpedia
  22. ^ Philip Ardagh (8 October 2006). "Return to Neverland". The Guardian. London.
  23. ^ Nicola Smyth (8 October 2006). "The Boys are back in town". The Independent. London.
  24. ^ GOSH PR: Film and TV rights to Peter Pan in Scarlet...
  25. ^ Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, § 301
  26. ^ GOSH Peter Pan Copyright, Publishing & Stage
  27. ^ [dead link‍]"Has the copyright crocodile finally caught Peter Pan?". Harbottle & Lewis.

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