PHYSICISTS and clinical engineers will be picking up instruments of a different kind when they perform at a concert to celebrate 70 years of the NHS – and raise money for a good cause.

Members of the York-based charity, the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM), will be performing at a charity concert at the National Centre for Early Music in the city.

The concert is being held on Tuesday next week at 7.30pm and is being attended by the York Civic Party.

It is being held as part of the celebrations to mark 70 years of the NHS and will feature medical physicists and clinical engineers from around the country, who are all amateur musicians, performing a variety of classical, modern and choral pieces. The concert will also raise funds for IPEM’s ‘Little Linac’ project. This aims to give every child under the age of 16 who is having treatment for cancer or leukaemia a free kit of model play bricks to help reduce their stress and anxiety. Tickets for the concert cost £15. Phone 01904 550599.