[2] It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, adjacent to Great Ormond Street Hospital.

[3] Frederic Hervey Foster Quin, the first homeopathic physician in England, had been instrumental in the founding of the hospital.

[4] It moved to its present site in Great Ormond Street in 1859,[3] the year when Quin took the chair of therapeutics and materia medica in the medical school.

[6] In 2024, King Charles III became patron of the hospital, a role Queen Elizabeth II had filled until her death in 2022.

[2] It has an education department which offers full and part-time courses in complementary medicine for registered health professionals.