It is operated by Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust.

Thomas Chappell, of the music publishing and piano manufacturing firm, provided a site at Elfin Grove where the existing residential buildings were adapted for their new use.

Its foundation stone had been laid the previous year by Lord Dawson of Penn, physician to the British Royal Family.

[2] Teddington Memorial Hospital and Community NHS Trust was established in 1993 and dissolved in 2001.

[3] The hospital is now operated by Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust.