The NHS Practitioner Health Progranme is a confidential service which offers support to doctors concerned about their own physical or mental health. The group's 10th anniversary conference took place in London recently and, for the first time, explored the benefits of singing together to promote good mental health. The suggestion came from Iwan Roberts, a radiologist at Sheffield Children's Hospital, who also sings with the city's men's barbershop chorus Hallmark of Harmony. He recruited a number of other singing medics to help him, along with Pippa Goodall, musical director of Capital Chorus in West London, who ran a workshop. Here you can listen to a brief audio snapshot of what happened. The full story will be told in the nest Harmony UK Podcast, edition 16, due to be published in November 2018.
* As well as Iwan and Pippa, other voices include those of Jonathan Hobbs, Tom Ridge and Dr Clare Gerada, medical director of the Practitioner Health Programnme.