<P> In the early part of the twentieth century the hospital sent out 160 nurses to work unsupervised in private houses . This earned £ 4000 a year, a profit of £ 1700 . </P> <P> In 1990 the Queen visited the hospital and added "Royal" to the name, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding . The present School of Nursing and Midwifery was formed in 1994 by the merger of the schools from St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Royal London Hospital to become the St Bartholomew School of Nursing & Midwifery . Prior to this, the school of nursing was known as the Princess Alexandra College of Nursing and Midwifery . In 1995 the new Nursing School was incorporated into City University, London . </P> <P> In March 2005 planning permission was granted for a £ 1 billion redevelopment and expansion of the Royal London Hospital . Sited on the grounds of the existing hospital, the redevelopment will replace the hospital's previously demolished facilities, some of which date back to when the hospital moved to its existing site in 1757 . On completion of the project, the hospital will have London's leading trauma and emergency care centre, one of Europe's largest renal services and the capital's second biggest paediatric service . Barts is also undergoing redevelopment and will become a cancer and cardiac centre of excellence . </P> <P> The Royal London has a museum which is located in the crypt of a 19th - century church . It reopened in 2002 after extensive refurbishment and is open to the public free of charge . The museum covers the history of the hospital since its foundation in 1740 and the wider history of medicine in the East End . It is a member of the London Museums of Health & Medicine . It includes works of art, surgical instruments, medical and nursing equipment, uniforms, medals, documents and books . There is a forensic medicine section which includes original material on Jack the Ripper, Dr Crippen and the Christie murders . There are also displays on Joseph Merrick (the' Elephant Man') and former Hospital nurse Edith 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 . </P>

What is happening to the old royal london hospital building