Launch of the National Alliance of Musicians in Healthcare

We are excited to announce the launch of the National Alliance of Musicians in Healthcare!

Over the past few years a network has been forming across the UK of organisations and individuals working in partnership with healthcare services to provide music making programmes in hospitals, hospices and community settings. This network has now formed an Alliance so that we can advocate for our work with one strong, coherent voice.

Please visit our website here and consider joining the Alliance if you or your organisation identifies with our aims and mission: http://www.namih.org/

As part of an Inquiry into the role of the arts in health and social care, the All Party Parliamentary Group for Arts, Health and Wellbeing is seeking examples of the arts and culture influencing health and wellbeing outcomes. The Alliance seeks to put forward a submission to the Inquiry, and as such, we are gathering information from across the Music in Healthcare sector to feed into this submission.

In submitting this information collectively to the APPG, we  are presenting a unified voice  that represents our growing, professional sector. Responding to the inquiry as an Alliance enables us to advocate strongly for our collective work across the UK and to  influence policy makers in government. We hope this will lead to increased support for our  work and greater inclusion of music-making as part of healthcare in the UK.

Information on how to be part of the Alliance’s response to the APPG inquiry is here:

http://www.namih.org/news/2016/7/21/call-for-evidence

The deadline for submissions to the Alliance is WEDNESDAY 10TH AUGUST!