[5] A royal charter was granted by Queen Victoria in 1837 in recognition of the hospital's treatment of cholera victims.

[7] In April 2011 the trust announced that it would be making 450 redundancies as part of a plan to reduce costs by £40m per year.

[3] In partnership with University College London (UCL), the trust has major research activities and it forms part of the UCLPartners academic health science centre.

[12] In March 2017, the trust sold land at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield to the Royal Free Charity for £50m.

[14] The role of the Board is to consider the key strategic and managerial issues facing the trust in carrying out its statutory and other functions.

[18] In November 2014, the trust started a project to scan 750,000 documents using Kodak scanners as part of its move to paper free working.

The project aimed at analysing data of patients to identify previously unknown trends about medical conditions.

[19] The trust has access to patients' GP records in the Urgent Care Centre run by Haverstock Healthcare in its A&E department using the EMIS Web integrated clinical IT system.

[27] In 2016, it set up a project with DeepMind to develop new clinical mobile apps linked to electronic patient records.