Children's Hospital School at Great Ormond Street Hospital

The grant from the e-Learning Foundation has helped the Great Ormond Street Hospital equip approximately ten young people in the Dialysis Unit with their own laptops for use at home, in school, and in their home-schools. The young people on the Dialysis Unit will be coming for four to five hours a day, three times a week, which means they miss a lot of their home-school provision. By having access to a laptop they can maintain contact with their home-schools, teachers, and not miss out with regard to that vital component of educational continuity.

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[1011aleksandra]

Last time my daughter went to school it was 2.5 years ago, but nobody from local education offered provisional help after she left hospital. It is all lovely and nice on film but realty is very different.This gifted and very inelligent child is illiterate now. I do not believe in GOSH motto: CHILD COMES FIRST..no more.

[1011aleksandra]

My daughter had a heart transplant. Operation was succesfull but after she was left with no guidance no help. Before surgery she was associate of English National Ballet school, lots of medals, grammar school student. Now she is left with no help (there is no fund for personel help at school).her life is watching 24/7 tv, isolated from peers and society in total depression. GOSH, LEA, soc. serv. some letters tones of speculations,just hell.in 2years, at 16 she will not need school!

[angieskidney]

I wish my dialysis unit had internet access. I think this is great that these kids don't have to put their learning on hold. When I was in high school on dialysis I had to attend only 1/2 days (I was on PD) and then once on HD my unit didn' t have net access or even cable. Thanks for sharing this video as it may be seen as unimportant to have net access but we can see here why this is a very important thing to have on allowing kids to have a normal life. Thank you.