New play explores e-health
1 December 2009
Breathing Country, by Ben Musgrave, aims to raise young people's awareness of the new NHS Electronic Patient Record system and its use in medical research. Each performance is followed by a live debate, using electronic voting technology, during which audience members are encouraged to explore what they think about the issues posed by the drama.
The production has been developed in partnership with the Royal Academy of Engineering. It is supported by Central YMCA and the Wellcome Trust, as part of our Electronic Patient Records and Databases in Research scheme. Breathing Country has been touring schools throughout London in late 2009, and will tour nationally in spring 2010.
Image: A scene from Breathing Country. Credit: Robert Workman