Royal Brompton Hospital is the largest specialist heart and lung medical centre in the United Kingdom.

Rose travelled the country to explain the aims of the hospital, setting up 14 provincial associations, 157 churches promised to preach special sermons as a means of fund raising.

[5] One of the features of the building was the inclusion of ventilation by forced warm air in an attempt to create a temperature more commonly found in more southern latitudes.

[7] The hospital acquired houses on the south side of the Brompton Road in 1868 with a plan to connect to the main building with a tunnel, which was completed in 1872.

[5] On 13 September 1900, the Royal Brompton Hospital acquired 20 acres (8.1 ha) of planted forestry at Chobham Ridge (which is 400 feet (120 m) above sea level), 2 miles (3.2 km) from Frimley Railway Station for £3,900.

[9] The formal opening of the sanatorium was on 25 June 1904 with the ceremony performed by the Prince of Wales (later King George V), but because of unresolved problems regarding heating, plumbing and staff the first patients were not admitted until March 1905.

[13] The Royal Brompton Hospital was extensively damaged by German bombing during the Second World War; it joined the National Health Service in 1948.

[5] A major research centre was created for the hospital on a site formerly occupied by St Wilfred's Convent in Cale Street in 1985.