News and updates

The Hackney Gazette’s article about how, despite our future still being insecure, we are taking in homeless Covid-19 patients to free up beds in NHS hospitals. We are gearing up to be at full capacity, doing all we can to play our part in the #COVID-19 National Emergency. #SaveMildmay #COVID19 #UKHospital

Mildmay Hospital needs volunteers during this time of National Emergency We are now admitting patients with acute HIV-related conditions, as well as both HIV and homeless COVID-19 patients that are recovering and no longer infectious, so we are urgently looking for volunteers to support our staff and patients during this critical time. Volunteers have always been central to Mildmay, giving their time, skills and expertise freely in support of our work. We need volunteers: for

We have passed 60,000 signatures on our petition to #SaveMildmay, which is amazing! Thank you so much to the people who have added their name. We are campaigning to ensure London’s only specialist HIV hospital remains open during the COVID-19 crisis, playing its part, but also afterwards so it can continue to care for vulnerable HIV patients. Please sign and share our petition: https://www.change.org/SaveMildmay As of today, Mildmay Hospital is in the excellent hands of our f

“As Chairman of the Mildmay Board since 2007, we are grateful for the public’s response to #SaveMildmay. In our mind, where the need for this excellent hospital is obviously clear, what do we have to do to move the Minister of State for Health with his colleagues and the funding Commissioners to release the money immediately to continue to serve the HIV community with our highly regarded clinical services? This is a new hospital – just four years old, built on fine traditions

In an extremely worrying development, it seems that we are back at Square One, because the funding for the transfer of these patients to Mildmay – yet again – is not being authorised. We know that there are HIV patients in infectious disease wards in NHS hospitals, effectively blocking those beds. We are ready to admit these HIV patients immediately, freeing up beds for COVID-19 patients. Once again, the NHS Commissioners – who hold the purse strings – appear to be, inexplica

Mildmay Hospital has been given a potential lifeline today. We are, at last, being contacted by NHS Commissioners (CCGs) asking if we can take patients – which of course we can because we have an entirely empty ward, in addition to other capacities. We are aware of potential referrals from right across London as NHS clinicians need to move patients out of Intensive/acute care. We anticipate the arrival of our first COVID-19 step-down patient sometime within the next 24 hours

Our MP Rushanara Ali continues to fight in our corner, as her recent Tweet shows, “@MattHancock can you just sort this! It’s been weeks since I asked for the government to stop the closure of this hospital. Retaining capacity is more important than ever as death toll increases by the day and hospitals struggle to cope with Coronovirus emergency.” Every hospital bed in the UK needs to be utilised during this unprecedented national crisis. It doesn’t make sense to lose 26 speci

PETITION UPDATE: 17 March 2020: COVID-19 Every hospital bed in the UK needs to be utilised during this unprecedented national crisis. It doesn’t make sense to lose 26 specialist hospital beds and all our expertise in infectious diseases at a time when there is such unrelenting pressure on the NHS. Mildmay Hospital stands ready to do what it can to ease the burden on overstressed NHS hospitals. We have an entirely empty ward with individual patient suites. We are increasingly

UPDATE: Monday 23 March 2020: Due to the COVID-19 emergency measures, we will not be delivering our petition to Downing Street today.The petition will keep running until the funding for the hospital is secure. Quite a lengthy post today but there is a lot to update you on, and you can read some useful FAQs at the end. Our petition now stands at over 51,000 signatures and still rising. In just over a week, we hope to deliver our petition to Prime Minister Boris Johnson at 10 D