Mildmay UK Hospital
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As of today, Mildmay Hospital is in the excellent hands of our fantastic clinical team and their support staff
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 […]
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The potential lifeline for Mildmay during the COVID-19 crisis has stalled
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.
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A potential lifeline for London’s only HIV/AIDS Hospital during COVID-19 epidemic
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 […]
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COVID-19 update
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.” […]
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During the Covid-19 epidemic, Mildmay stands ready to help ease the burden on NHS hospitals
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.
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We plan to deliver our #SaveMildmay petition to Downing Street on Monday 23 March
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 […]
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BBC London visit Mildmay to highlight the #SaveMildmay Campaign
A reporter and cameraman from BBC London visited the hospital recently and made a film about why we are under threat of closure. This was to be followed up by a feature on the One Show.
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Over 40, 000 of you want to help Mildmay Hospital
What an incredible couple of days it has been! Thank you so much to all who have added their voices to our petition to the Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, to step in and instruct civil servants to resolve this situation. On Friday, we had 10,000 signatories, […]
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#SaveMildmay petition has reached 10,000 signatures!
Thanks to you all, we have reached 10,000 signatures on our petition to #SaveMildmay – in just 7 days. This is nearly 1,500 per day on average but actually the trend is for increasing numbers signing up every day. You are smashing it!
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An incredible 5,617 people have already signed our petition to #Save Mildmay
Good morning to you all, and thank you so very much. We recently reached 5,000 signatures. An amazing number to have reached in just a few days – but we are already well past that and heading for the next milestone of 10,000 signatures. Our petition has been viewed 23,697 times on Change.org and shared over 3,000 times. […]
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