[1] The hospital was established as the infirmary for the St Pancras Union Workhouse in 1848.

[2] It joined the National Health Service in 1948 under the management of the University College Hospital.

[5] After the hospital chapel became a day nursery, chaplaincy services were provided by St Pancras Old Church.

[6] During the 1990s the hospital came under the management of the Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust.

[2] In January 1999 an independent report revealed abuse at Beach House, one of the geriatric units of the hospital, where nurses hit and tied up elderly mentally ill patients, and racially intimidated colleagues who threatened to report them.