Broderip Ward

[3] Admissions to the Broderick Ward at the Middlesex hospital appeared in medical journals in 1874, when a 20-year-old presented with a bullet wound,[4] in 1875 when a 52-year old grocer fell and fractured his skull,[5] and in 1879 when a 39-year old was treated for suspected rupture of bladder,[6] all under the care of Sir Henry Morris.

[8] The Broderip Ward took its first patients in January 1987, and was officially opened by Diana, Princess of Wales, on 9 April 1987.

[9][10] None of the patients agreed to be photographed with Diana at the opening of the ward due to fears of being publicly identified.

[10][12][13] Diana subsequently visited the ward with the First Lady of the United States, Barbara Bush, in July 1991.

[9] In a January 1987 interview with Sally Brompton in The Times, Elliot said that in choosing nurses to work on the ward she "obviously [had] to look for people who want to do it for the right reasons.

[9] Brompton, wrote of the "built-in despondency element of nursing no-hopers", with Elliot countering that though there was no cure for AIDS "...there may be tomorrow.

And it isn't limited to giving out bedpans — you have to treat them as a whole, mentally and physically, as well as all the people around them — family, colleagues and friends".

In a 2019 interview Godfrey-Faussett recalled that "...here on the Broderip Ward were people of my own age, reading the same books, going to the same operas and plays.

[18] The ward represented a new collaborative approach to patient care in contrast to the hierarchical structures of the past.

The Terrance Higgins Trust also helped to provide support work in offering counselling to patients in need.