[5] After the 2015 refurbishment, the hospital now provides thoracic surgery and urology services.

[6][7][8] The National Heart Hospital was founded in 1857 by Dr Eldridge Spratt in Margaret Street.

The hospital was relocated to Newman Street off Oxford Street around 1869 and then to Soho Square in 1874, with various changes of name en route, including in 1872 "The National Hospital for the Special Treatment of Paralysis, Epilepsy, Nervousness, and the Primary Stages of Insanity and other diseases from Affectations of the Heart."

It was one of the first hospitals in the world specifically built for treating cardiovascular disease, as well as for postgraduate training and research.

[2] In 2015, all cardiac services moved to the Bart's Heart Centre at St Bartholomew's Hospital, following a review of cardiac servies in north and east London by NHS England[10] and agreement by the boards of UCLH NHS Foundation Trust and Barts Health NHS Trust to combine their specialist cardiovascular services at the one site.