Bigger Picture Collaboration

An innovative, non-profit project working with organisations and charities to support healthcare professional wellbeing and patient care through a wider perspective, the arts and humanities.

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Testimonials

‘A wonderful project’

Adam Kay

‘A wonderful anthology to celebrate the NHS, which itself is the greatest poem a country has ever written’

Stephen Fry

‘Inspirational’

Simon Callow, CBE

‘The big, beautiful, beating heart of the NHS as you’ve never seen it before’

Rachel Clarke

‘A brilliant initiative’

Iona Heath, CBE (President RCGP 2009-2012)

‘What a wonderful project! Imaginative and inspiring’

Professor John Gilles, OBE (Chair RCGP Scotland 2010-2014)

These Are The Hands

Published on 21st March (World Poetry Day) the book is available from all good book shops and online including Amazon. You can also buy now direct from our publisher, Fair Acre Press.

Poems from the heart of the NHS

These poems give a unique insight into the real experiences of the people at the heart of the NHS, caring for us from the moment of birth to the end of life. In crystallising the most beautiful and painful moments of being human, they speak directly to us all. The anthology also includes poems donated by leading UK poets, Michael Rosen, Lemn Sissay, Roger McGough, Wendy Cope, Sabrina Mahfouz, Molly Case, Kate Clanchy, Sam Guglani, Charly Cox, and the estates of UA Fanthorpe, Dannie Abse and Julia Darling.

All proceeds will go to NHS Charities Together which supports over 140 official NHS charities raising money for NHS hospitals, ambulance services, community and mental health services across the UK.

These Are The Hands

Published on 21st March (World Poetry Day) the book is available from all good book shops and online including Amazon. You can also buy now direct from our publisher, Fair Acre Press.

Poems from the heart of the NHS

These poems give a unique insight into the real experiences of the people at the heart of the NHS, caring for us from the moment of birth to the end of life. In crystallising the most beautiful and painful moments of being human, they speak directly to us all.

The anthology also includes poems donated by leading UK poets, Michael Rosen, Lemn Sissay, Roger McGough, Wendy Cope, Sabrina Mahfouz, Molly Case, Kate Clanchy, Sam Guglani, Charly Cox, and the estates of UA Fanthorpe, Dannie Abse and Julia Darling.

All proceeds will go to NHS Charities Together which supports over 140 official NHS charities raising money for NHS hospitals, ambulance services, community and mental health services across the UK.