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Music to support healthy communities

Music and Health Programme

“Wherever we are from, whatever language we speak, music connects us – unites us.”
– March 2021 Life Room sharing event

Liverpool Philharmonic’s Music and Health programme began in partnership with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in 2008. Initially, the programme was a pilot working across two Mental Health wards but has now grown to work with the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Foundation Trust, Improving Me and the Walton Centre.

We work in community settings and have a growing social prescribing programme, welcoming referrals from GPs, Link Workers and mental health charities. The programme has worked with over 17,500 individuals, using music to improve the health of people across the Liverpool City region.

Now, the programme is celebrating its fifteenth year, unique in its position as one of the longest continuously running Music and Health programmes working in collaborative partnership with the NHS.

Central to the programme are the people and communities we work with, our NHS colleagues and the world-famous musicians from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Through working together over the last 15 years, we have developed a programme which uses music to support, connect and benefit the health and wellbeing of individuals and families across the Liverpool City Region. 

Our Music and Health programme creates pathways and progression routes including independent visits to Liverpool Philharmonic and sign-posting to other activities. We deliver a range of activities within community settings, including Mersey Care’s Life Rooms facilities. Our social prescribing programme, Music Mondays, is open for referrals for individuals aged 18+ from across the Liverpool City Region.

The programme helps develop confidence, skills and hope for the future, and reduces isolation and exclusion of often highly marginalised individuals at very challenging times in their lives.

Read the review outlining the positive impact of Liverpool Philharmonic’s innovative and far-reaching programme:

We are working with an evaluation team from the University of Liverpool to produce an evaluation report which will be published in October 2023.

For further information contact learning@liverpoolphil.com

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