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This week, Mildmay Hospital held a research sharing afternoon, bringing together clinical staff and guests to present new work across HIV care, speech and language therapy, and clinical education. Presentations covered dysphagia advocacy, frailty assessment in people living with HIV, and the use of AI tools in HIV education. The afternoon was supported by Gilead Sciences and included a food tasting hosted by Raj Foods Ltd.

Mildmay Hospital has secured £33,800 in charitable funding following its Winter Appeal, ensuring the continuation of vital non-NHS services including chaplaincy, rehabilitation support, and clinical training initiatives. These funds will directly enhance patient care, recovery, and wellbeing in the year ahead.

For five years, Mildmay Hospital and NOVA Medical School in Lisbon have worked together to give nutrition and dietetics students hands-on clinical experience in our HIV, homelessness and post-detox pathways. Their audits, research and service evaluations are shaping care at Mildmay, influencing international practice, and helping to train the next generation of dietitians to work with rigour and humanity.

A new report finds that six million fewer Britons gave to charity last year than a decade ago. At Mildmay Hospital, we feel the reality behind those numbers every day. Our Winter Appeal closes on 1 April, and we are just £1,301 away from our £30,000 target. If you have been thinking about giving, now is the moment it counts most. Please help us get there.

Dietetic students from Nova Medical School, Lisbon, have just completed their international internship at Mildmay with a project exploring how nutritional interventions may support better sleep in patients undergoing complex rehabilitation. Their work highlights the importance of evidence-informed, patient-centred care and Mildmay’s role in training the next generation of healthcare professionals.

Difficulty swallowing can be dangerous and distressing for people with complex health needs. At Mildmay, specialist speech and language therapy and multidisciplinary care are transforming how dysphagia is identified and managed. Learning from international best practice is helping us deliver safer, more dignified rehabilitation for our patients.

National HIV Testing Week starts today! Testing is free, quick, and easy—and you can even do it from home with a free kit delivered in plain packaging. Knowing your status is the only way to stay in control of your health and access life-saving treatment. Whether it’s been a year since your last check or you’ve never tested before, now is the perfect time.

Mildmay’s Senior Specialist Dietitian, Kattya Mayre-Chilton, has been formally recognised by NHS England for her contribution to a national e-learning programme on Nutrition and HIV. Her specialist input, drawn from clinical practice at Mildmay Hospital, is helping support high-quality, evidence-based HIV care across the NHS.

To mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2026 and the theme Bridging Generations, Mildmay reflected on the importance of carrying Holocaust stories forward as living witnesses become fewer. Through personal testimony linked to the Kindertransport, the talk explored memory, persecution and the responsibility we all share to remember the past and challenge injustice today.

We wish you all a happy Christmas as we reflect on 40 years since Mildmay’s rebirth as an independent charity, and we look ahead with purpose. From developing new patient pathways at Mildmay Hospital to preparing our new Uganda Health Programme, we remain committed to dignity, specialist care and partnership, made possible by the support of our community.