Edmund Blampied elected to the Royal Society of British Artists. Later that year he was asked to prepare some new illustrations for a lavish edition of Peter Pan, the rights to which had been bequeathed by J. M. Barrie to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. The "Blampied Edition of Peter and Wendy" was published in 1939 by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK and by Scribners in the US, and is one of the finest illustrated editions of this book. By the time "Peter and Wendy "was published Blampied had moved from London to Jersey with the intention of settling there.
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust safety and welfare very seriously. In April 2012, BBC One London broadcast a documentary called "Great Ormond Street Hospital", presented by Tim Donovan, which explained how the trust is facing accusations that it is downgrading child protection work and "victimising" staff who raise concerns. 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". 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