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Mildmay Hospital’s 2025–26 Quality Account is now published, highlighting how we deliver specialist rehabilitation and care for people living with HIV-related conditions, and patients experiencing homelessness, substance misuse and other complex needs. Our lead NHS commissioner confirms it fairly reflects our priorities, achievements and challenges, and welcomes our continued commitment to tackling health inequalities.

An archive photo of the original Mildmay Mission Hospital opened in 1892. Mildmay Hospital has been featured in Triple Helix, the quarterly magazine of the Christian Medical Fellowship, in an article celebrating our 160-year history of faith-driven, compassionate care. The article traces Mildmay's journey from its founding by Catherine and Revd William Pennefather and the Mildmay Deaconesses responding to the 1866 cholera outbreak, through becoming Europe's first AIDS hospice

Today is International Nurses Day, 12 May, Florence Nightingale's birthday. At Mildmay, our nurses are at the heart of everything we do. They work with patients living with complex health and social needs, meeting them with skill, patience, and a steady belief that everyone deserves dignity and a chance to recover. Mildmay's nursing legacy stretches back 160 years, and today we celebrate the nurses who continue that work every day. Happy International Nurses Day 2026.

An Easter message from Sister Bernie and the Mildmay Chaplaincy Team. Holy Week at Mildmay has been marked by daily chapel services, a Good Friday walk through Shoreditch, and a chapel dressed in gold and spring flowers. Wishing all our patients, staff and friends a very happy and blessed Easter Sunday.

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.

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.