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Singalong start for choir

08 February 2023

 

Our Ward 12 team hosted a singalong yesterday as part of a new initiative to bring music to older patients, including those with dementia.

A photo of a group, including members of our choir and staff on Ward 12, stand in a ward corridor area. Many of the 11 people in the picture hold song sheets and all are wearing blue surgical face masks.

The event marks the first phase of work to establish a dementia choir at the James Paget – following in the footsteps of the national initiative highlighted by actor Vicky McClure.

The choir is the idea of Dr Aban Dasgupta and he’s enlisted support from our Ward 12 team, our Dementia Care team and Julie Shiret and Dusty Miller who founded our hospital choir.

On Tuesday, several members of our hospital choir, including Julie, toured Ward 12 bays encouraging our patients to join in with singing a host of traditional songs.

It’s hoped the choir will start with regular sessions on the Ward every Tuesday and will grow from there to events in the wider hospital and possibly beyond.

A photo of four of our choir members standing in a bay on Ward 12. The end of patient beds are visible and, in the foreground, a number of members of staff have their backs to the camera as they join in with singing on the ward.