Mildmay Featured in Christian Medical Fellowship's Triple Helix Magazine
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Mildmay Hospital has been featured in the spring 2026 issue of Triple Helix, the membership magazine of the Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF).
The article traces Mildmay's history from its founding in response to the 1866 cholera outbreak to its current work providing specialist services to the NHS for people with complex HIV, homelessness, and substance dependence.
For readers of Triple Helix - over 5,000 qualified and student members of CMF working in medicine, nursing, and midwifery across the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. who integrate Christian faith with clinical practice - Mildmay represents something both clinically rigorous and consistent: a hospital where compassionate, person-centred care has been the defining principle for over 160 years.
A Witness to the Gospel in Action
The article describes how Mildmay has consistently stepped into the hardest places. In 1866, Mildmay Deaconesses were dispatched to the cholera-ravaged slums of Bethnal Green. In 1988, at the height of fear and stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS, Mildmay became Europe's first hospice specifically caring for people with advanced AIDS.
Today, we provide specialist neurorehabilitation, post-hospital recovery for people experiencing homelessness, and detox and post-detox stabilisation pathways; clinical services that are commissioned because standard pathways cannot meet the complexity of need.
What is consistent across these eras is the integration of clinical excellence with holistic care. Our multidisciplinary teams bring together medical expertise, therapeutic rehabilitation, social care, and pastoral support. Our chaplaincy is not peripheral, but a core component of what makes recovery possible.
As the article states: "It is not plaques, publicity, or historical milestones that define us. It is the stories of those we serve: the man living with complex HIV who walks again after months of rehabilitation; the woman discharged not to the street but to a new home, thanks to integrated support; the person once disregarded and forgotten who now receives care, dignity, and hope."
Why This Recognition Matters
CMF is an interdenominational organisation founded in 1949 to support Christian healthcare professionals who seek to integrate faith, ethics, and medical practice. It contributes to national debates on bioethics, provides training for professionals working in global health, and offers pastoral support for clinicians navigating the pressures of modern healthcare.
For CMF members, Mildmay's model demonstrates that faith-informed care and evidence-based clinical practice are not contradictory but complementary. We do not simply treat conditions; we walk alongside people through some of the most difficult moments of their lives, treating them as whole human beings: body, mind, and spirit.
This weekend, our CEO Geoff Coleman and Trustee Peter Brunskill represented Mildmay at CMF's national conference, where they connected with healthcare professionals from across the UK and Ireland. The response reinforced something we already know: there is a hunger among Christian clinicians for healthcare institutions where compassion is not incidental but structural, where faith is not hidden but integrated into a model of care that genuinely works.
Still Needed, Still Relevant
The article reminds readers that Mildmay is not a relic of the AIDS crisis. We are a living, evolving charity responding to the health challenges of today: the intersection of HIV and ageing, the healthcare crisis among people experiencing homelessness, and the lack of effective post-detox stabilisation pathways.
We are also one of the few places left in the UK where faith and clinical practice are understood not as contradictory but as essential to delivering the highest quality of care. Our patients - of all faiths and none - benefit from care that treats them as whole people.
The article closes with a direct call to Christian healthcare professionals: "Mildmay needs your support. Not just your prayers, but your advocacy, your voice, and, where possible, your financial giving. In a healthcare system under increasing pressure, we need places like Mildmay - intentionally shaped by Christian compassion - where the most vulnerable are seen, known, and loved."
We are very grateful to CMF for this platform and for recognising the work Mildmay continues to do every day.
Read the full article: Triple Helix is available to CMF members at www.cmf.org.uk/publication/triple-helix-spring-2026
Learn more about CMF: cmf.org.uk
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