Series: Creative Thinktanks

Ideas explored: music for health and wellbeing

Creative Thinktank 30 Sept - 1 Oct 2019

A growing body of research evidence is drawing attention to the many positive impacts singing can have on physical and mental wellbeing, encouraging increasingly more members of the community to seek the connectivity and uplifting qualities of group singing activities. With social prescription currently high on the government agenda, both demand for such provision and complexity of need are likely to increase dramatically. Facilitated by Katherine Zeserson, and with an opening presentation by Bev Taylor, NHS Lead for Social Prescribing, this event brought together researchers, policy-makers, clinicians, practitioners and other stakeholders to consider how community-based assets (choirs, singing and music groups) become ‘social prescribing’ ready.

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Illustrations by Simon Wild

Attendees

June Boyce-Tillman
Pip Cahill
Baz Chapman
Christine Davies
Dean Dorset
Emily Foulkes
Andy Hall
Louise Hardwick
Heather McClelland
Amy Mallett
John McMahon
Phillipa Reive
Bev Taylor
Nicola Wydenbach
Katherine Zeserson

Related reading:

https://www.culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk/resources/social-prescribing

https://www.socialprescribingnetwork.com/

http://www.artshealthandwellbeing.org.uk/appg-inquiry/

https://www.england.nhs.uk/personalisedcare/social-prescribing/

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4857

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-perceived-benefits-of-singing%3A-findings-from-of-Clift-Hancox/416b9cb5eba129711bcc6e1542341d4104b0dfd9