Ex Cathedra Singing Medicine

The Singing Medicine team has developed special repertoire and ways of working which enable children with life-limiting conditions to participate in, and benefit from, singing activities. Singing is a special activity that brings feelings of well-being, and can stimulate or calm the body and our singing games have been designed to enable children of all capabilities and needs to be able to make decisions in an environment where they can feel all decision making and control has been taken away from them.

The project started at Birmingham Children’s Hospital in 2004 and since then has won an NHS Health and Social Care Award, and most recently an award from the Royal Society for Public Health for outstanding contribution to the field of arts and health. The project has been delivered at Great Ormond Street, John Radcliffe, Warwick and Heartlands hospitals, as well as travelling to Auckland and Singapore.

We aim to make a difference to children!