News
Volunteers' Week: Cara Manning-Diabira
- 2nd June 2025
We are fortunate to be supported by a network of volunteer ambassadors who champion the charity. One of those inspiring voices is Cara Manning-Diabira.
Music in Hospitals & Care visits Royal Edinburgh Hospital’s Canaan and Fairmile wards around once a month, where soprano Daniela Hathaway draws on her extensive experience working with people living with dementia to create an interactive live music experience.
Student Volunteering Week: Tatenda
- 10th February 2025
This Student Volunteering Week, we hear from St Andrews University student Tatenda, who volunteered with us last year in Scotland.
Exciting new research project on music and dementia launching in Edinburgh
- 14th February 2024
Music in Hospitals & Care are excited to be working with the University of Edinburgh, specifically the Edinburgh Centre for Research on the Lived Experience of Dementia.
“Live music is essential for patients in critical care”
- 14th October 2022
Caroline Barker has been a Senior Charge Nurse in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh’s Intensive Care and High Dependency Units for over 25 years. Our musicians have recently been able to go back into critical wards at the hospital for the first time since before the pandemic.
Volunteers’ Week 2022: Ambassador Sandra McLennan
- 1st June 2022
Our ambassador talks about about her volunteering with Music in Hospitals & Care and the impact that it made on a group she spoke to recently.
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