Welcome to Peter Pan Ward

Information for families

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust This leaflet explains about the facilities available on Peter Pan Ward and what to expect when your child comes to the ward.

About the ward size bed, he or she may need to stay on Peter Pan Ward is a surgical ward for another ward. Peter Pan Ward is fully children having ear, nose and throat accessible to disabled children and holds (ENT) surgery, maxillofacial (jaw and relevant equipment, such as hoists and facial) surgery, cleft lip and/or palate sliding boards. The ward has a disabled repair, dental surgery, plastic surgery or toilet and bathing facilities. There is also having cochlear implants fitted. Children of another bathroom on the ward that can any age (up to and including adolescence) be used by children and their parents. stay on Peter Pan Ward, although the The ward is arranged in two wings and majority are under five years’ old. there are 18 beds on the ward overall. The ward has a full complement of These are arranged in two bays of four nursing staff and the clinical nurse and five beds, a nursery holding three specialists for tracheostomies and ENT cots and six side rooms. Your child will surgery are based on Peter Pan Ward. be nursed in a bay as the side rooms are Other members of the team include our usually allocated to children who either play specialist, health care assistants, have an infection or who have to be admissions and administration staff. protected from infection. However, if the Doctors from all specialities make regular rooms are not needed for these children, visits to the ward, as do psychologists, we will try to give them to older patients, social workers and other clinical nurse so they can have some privacy and quiet. specialists as needed. If you would like to We do our utmost to protect the privacy speak to your child’s doctor (or another and dignity of your child at all times member of the team), please ask one of during their stay at GOSH. Your child will the nurses to arrange this for you, as we be allocated a bed space according to cannot guarantee they will be free to visit how their physical, psychological and straight away, particularly if they are in social needs are best met taking into the operating theatre. consideration the needs of other children Peter Pan Ward is in the Southwood and young people on the ward at that Building, which is one of the oldest parts time. Please tell us if your child has a of the hospital, so space can be limited at preference for being with other children times. All of the beds on the ward are of their own age or gender and we will try child-size, so if your child needs an adult- to meet this request where possible. Please note that there are some put it in the fridge. Please do not enter circumstances where requests cannot be the kitchen when food trolley is there for met, for instance, in high dependency or health and safety reasons. intensive care areas. Your child's safety The ward playroom is open every day will be our utmost priority at all times. and evening for toys, activities and crafts. Each bed has access to a television but The play specialists will supervise the we would ask that all televisions be playroom and activities, but you are still switched off after 9pm in the ward areas responsible for watching your child, where children are sleeping. particularly when the play specialist is Great Ormond Street Hospital is also a with another child elsewhere. If brothers teaching facility so you will see student and sisters are visiting, you are nurses and doctors completing their responsible for their behaviour at all training, but they will be supervised at all times. We also ask that you tidy up after times by a qualified member of staff. your child, especially during evenings, at There is a telephone by each bed and weekends and during holiday periods. If you can make outgoing calls by swiping your child has to stay in bed or is in your credit or debit card or a GOSH isolation, you can borrow toys, games phone card (available from the hospital and videos from playroom but please shop). You can also give the telephone return them when your child has finished number to family and friends so they can with them. call you, but please ask them not to Sometimes we can accommodate one phone too late in the evening. parent on the ward overnight but not always next to your child, because the Facilities for parents and families ward has limited space. There are various parent accommodation facilities There is a kitchen on the ward, where in the hospital and in the local area. The you can make tea or coffee, or heat up accommodation office is on level 3 of snacks. Meals for parents and brothers Weston House. You will need to give or sisters are not provided by the ward them a deposit for the room key. but you are welcome to buy food from Thursdays tend to be our busiest day the hospital shop, café or local shops. and so providing space for parents to You can store food in the fridge in the stay on the ward is more difficult then. kitchen, but please make sure it is labelled with your name and the date you Pre-admission clinic provide most brands of infant formulas. We offer children coming to Peter Pan You will also need wash kit for you and Ward for surgery or investigations a pre- your child and any favourite toys, admission check either in clinic or by blankets, bottles and so on. telephone. If your child has any specific care needs, please tell us during this Please do not bring in any valuables, pre-admission check, so we can make as we cannot accept responsibility for any arrangements. You can also ask any loss of or damage to them while any questions or check details at this you are in the hospital. point. The night before your child is due to be admitted, staff on Dinosaur will telephone you to check he or she is well Visiting and ready for admission. Parents and brothers or sisters are welcome to visit at any time, but we What to bring would ask that you do not come as a big group as space is so limited on the If your child is taking any prescription ward. Other visitors can visit between medicines, please bring these with the hours of 10am and 8pm. If you or you. You should also bring any any visitor has been in contact with emergency equipment too, such as coughs, colds, tummy bugs, or suction kits and pumps. If your child is infectious diseases like chicken pox or taking a special feed, you can bring measles, we would prefer you to wait this in as well, but only if the tin or until you are better before visiting. bottle is unopened. We can, however,

If you have any questions, please ring Peter Pan Ward on 020 7829 8825

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