Old soldiers' home Old soldiers' home An old soldiers' home is a military veteran's retirement home, nursing home, or hospital, or sometimes even an institution for the care of the widows and orphans of a nation's soldiers, sailors, and marines, etc. In the United Kingdom the Royal Hospital Chelsea was established by King Charles II in 1682 as a retreat for veterans. The provision of a hostel rather than the payment of pensions was inspired by Les Invalides in Paris. The Royal Hospital Chelsea, often called simply Chelsea Hospital, is a retirement home and nursing home for some 300 veterans of the British
Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine moved to its present site in Great Ormond Street in 1859, the year when Quin took the chair of therapeutics and "materia medica" in the medical school. The hospital joined the NHS as a teaching hospital becoming the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital by permission of King George VI in 1948. It was brought under the management of the Bloomsbury Health Authority in 1982 and it joined University College London Hospitals NHS Trust (now University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) in 2002. The hospital was renamed the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine in September 2010 to better reflect its