Donate £10 a month to help more families stay close during the most critical times
If your child takes a turn for the worse, after surgery or treatment, all you want is to stay close – to comfort, watch over and be there when they wake.
That’s why Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Charity provides free home-from-home accommodation for families with a child in the intensive care unit (ICU) or high dependency unit (HDU), so children can have their mum, dad or loved one stay close.
“It's amazing I can stay so close while Zak’s in hospital.”
Around 750 seriously ill children and young people from all over the UK are seen at GOSH every day. There, they receive the very best medical care, and their critical care bed could be home for days, or even weeks. For many families, the cost of hotels, night after night, is simply unaffordable.
Sign up to give a monthly gift that could help families stay close, to get through the unimaginable together.
How your regular support could help families stay close
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£12a month could help to provide accommodation so families can be close to their children when they need it most
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£8a month could help fund cutting-edge equipment to deliver better care to children at GOSH
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£5a month could fund in-hospital play specialists to help children process their experiences and prepare for treatment
Meet Zak
Zak arrived at GOSH when he was just six months old. He was born with craniosynostosis, meaning his skull was fusing before his brain was fully formed. This could seriously impact his brain’s growth and development, so Zak needed multiple surgeries, including craniosynostosis surgery to create space for his brain to grow. He’s also had open heart surgery to repair two holes in his heart.
Zak and his family live in Luton, many miles from his high dependency unit (HDU) bed at GOSH. But his mum Sam won’t be anywhere other than his bedside – so having free home-from-home accommodation minutes from the hospital means everything.
“While Zak was a high dependency unit patient, we had accommodation the whole time we were there.”
Donating £10 a month could help families like Zak's stay close
Your donation will be used where it is needed most to help the children and families at Great Ormond Street Hospital.