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Making music to help improve health and wellbeing

Music-making
in hospital

We work across various hospitals in the East Midlands to provide music-making on children's and older people's wards, in intensive care and high dependency units, in neonatal intensive care, and in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

Music-making
In the community

We work alongside communities to deliver music-making sessions, supporting local musicians to engage in this practice.

Music Care
Training

We train healthcare professionals and carers, sharing the benefits of music for health and wellbeing and how to utilise music-making as part of their every day care practise

Healthcare Musician
Training

We provide training and development opporutnities for musicians to enable them to develop their musical practices within health and social care.

What are the benefits?

Music supports physical, emotional, and mental health

Music can reduce anxiety, stress, blood pressure, and pain

Music can improve sleep quality

Music can boost mood, mental alertness, and memory

At OPUS Music we create music for wellbeing, with the aim to enhance the wellness in the people we meet through music-making. We invite people to join in with our music-making and share and experience those moments together. We perform songs that people may know and may want to join in with, and we also create sounds and melodies, experiencing the music making that comes out of a moment of creativity.

Music-making offers autonomy and allows the individual to lead and express themselves through the act of music-making. This supports a non-verbal form of communication, offers connection and can break down barriers to interaction.

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Our Impact

Discover the impact of OPUS music. Hear stories from healthcare professionals, families, and community members moved by our music-making. Join our campaign for change, advocating music as a vital component of health and social care to improve wellbeing.

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Find out more about what we've been up to...

Claire & Flo's Story image of Florence and Claire at home

Claire & Flo’s Story

16 July, 2025

At just 2 years and 8 months old, Florence has already shown more courage than many of us do in a lifetime. Born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome – a rare and serious condition affecting normal blood flow through the heart – Flo’s journey has been anything but ordinary. Her life has been filled with hospital stays, procedures, and challenges that no child should ever have to face. But through all of it, there has been a constant presence bringing light, joy, and calm: music, and the musicians of OPUS Music CIC.

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Music as Medicine for Babies and Young Children - photo of mother and child playing the glockenspiel smiling at each other

Music as Medicine for Babies and Young Children

10 July, 2025

When a child is admitted to hospital, it can be a time of deep stress and uncertainty, for the young patient, their family, and even the clinical staff around them. At OPUS Music CIC, we’ve long believed in the power of live music to support health and well-being, especially in the hospital environment. But belief alone is not enough, we also turn to science to back our work. Increasingly, medical research supports what we see every day: music can have measurable, beneficial effects on babies and young children in hospital, helping to reduce stress, ease pain, improve physiological stability, and support family bonding.

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OPUS Music is a Community Interest Company limited by guarantee registered in England no. 07900221

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