Originally located in Great Ormond Street, London, by the end of the 19th century it had relocated to St John's Wood and adopted its present name.

[2] The chapel which once stood on Great Ormond Street was moved brick-by-brick to its new site at the Hospital in St John's Wood.

The new code "bars doctors from offering any service which conflicts with Catholic teaching" including "sex-change operations, providing contraception, abortion referrals and IVF treatment".

[7] Later in 2008, the Cardinal ordered the resignation of the remaining board members and installed Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank as chairman.

[8] The hospital's facilities include five operating theatres, and en-suite bathrooms in all of the patients' rooms.