Old soldiers' home of The Royal Hospital, ensuring the care and well-being of the Chelsea Pensioners who live there and safeguarding the historic buildings and grounds, which it owns in trust'. Royal Hospital is also a ward of the Kensington and Chelsea Council. The population at the 2011 Census was 7,252. Greenwich Hospital was a permanent home for retired sailors of the Royal Navy, which operated from 1692 to 1869. Its buildings were later used by the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and the University of Greenwich, and are now known as the Old Royal Naval College. The word "hospital" was used in its
Royal London Hospital Cavell. There is the model of a church in the hospital that was built by Joseph Merrick who spent the last few years of his life at the hospital. The Royal London's archives contain documents dating back to 1740, including complete patient records since 1883. The collections are searchable on the Barts Health NHS Trust online catalogue, which contains information on over 50,000 entries and covering an 800-year span. Barts and the London NHS Trust, now absorbed into Barts Health NHS Trust, consists of four tertiary hospitals, St. Bartholomew's, the Royal London, Whipps Cross and Newham General, together producing some