My opinion of the credibility of GOSH will long be shaped by the experience of whistleblower Dr. Kim Holt and her colleagues and by the actions of the then-head of GOSH, Jane Collins after the murder of Baby P.
From Daily Telegraph 2009 (there are plenty of other articles if you have an understandable distrust of the DT)
"Dr Kim Holt told how she and all three of her senior colleagues raised concerns — more than a year before 17-month-old Peter Connelly came to the clinic in summer 2007 — that it was “falling apart” and that a child would die if action was not taken. “We were at our wits’ end,” she said. “We knew that a case like Baby Peter was going to happen.”
Instead of taking action, she said, Great Ormond Street, which employed the doctors, forced her out of the clinic on “wholly spurious grounds” and later offered her a six-figure sum to “buy my silence”.
Dr Holt was one of four permanent consultants at the paediatric clinic, at St Ann’s Hospital, Haringey. Of the other three, two left in disgust and one went sick for a period. By the time Peter became a patient at the clinic, none of the four was in place. He saw Dr Holt’s replacement, an inexperienced temporary locum — who sent him home after allegedly failing to notice he had a broken back. Two days later, the 17-month-old was found dead in his bloodstained cot with eight broken ribs, severe lacerations to his head, a tip of a finger missing, broken teeth, missing nails, and scores of cuts.
After Peter’s death, Dr Holt said, Great Ormond Street approached her and offered her a sum rising to £120,000 to leave her job and stay silent. Documents supporting this claim have been seen by The Sunday Telegraph.
“They were in a panic [after Baby P],” she said. “They said I had to withdraw my allegations or the money was off the table. They wanted me to sign a statement saying that all my concerns had been addressed. I refused because it would have been a lie. They were trying to buy my silence... The Great Ormond Street managers were obsessed with Government targets. We were just supposed to process the children and not care about their lives. The world knows Great Ormond Street as this beacon of the care of children. But the case of Haringey shows its reputation is misplaced. There is something which is not right at the heart of this hospital. There are many wonderful doctors there, but the ethos has been undermined by a core of people who are failing in their duty.”
BBC website 2011
"A government minister has called on the chief executive of Great Ormond Street Hospital (Gosh) to resign for "covering up" failings in the Baby Peter case.
Liberal Democrat Lynne Featherstone accuses the hospital of withholding crucial information about the children's clinic where its locum doctor examined the toddler two days before he died.
It follows an investigation by BBC London which reveals the hospital failed to pass on to an official inquiry findings of a report into St Ann's clinic in Haringey, including the fact its senior doctor viewed it as "clinically risky".
Home Office minister Ms Featherstone has said the government should investigate and called for Dr Jane Collins to step down.
She said: "I'm disgusted. I cannot believe that anyone, let alone people in these very trusted positions, would hold back, withhold, doctor, cover-up information."
'First class CEO'
The chairwoman of the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, Baroness Tessa Blackstone, said: "The trust board has complete confidence in Dr Collins, she is a first class CEO.
"As a board we have confidence that the trust has never sought to mislead any inquiry into the death of a child. The non-executive directors have met Ms Featherstone to discuss her concerns with her.
"We did not accept her views." "
Lynne was rightfully hot on safeguarding back then.