PRS Members' Fund to launch wellbeing platform for artists

Music charity PRS Members' Fund has partnered with the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM) to launch a new digital tool aiming to support the health and wellbeing of music creators. InTune, which offers users resources to help users manage their physical and mental wellbeing, will officially launch at the PRS Annual General Meeting on 3 June.

The new InTune digital platform provides its users with personalised wellbeing insights with a special emphasis on the health challenges that songwriters, composers and musicians often face. The platform also offers resources to help users manage finances, find solutions for writer’s block and help build resilience.

BAPAM medical director Dr Finola Ryan said: ‘The internet is flooded with generic, trending, and unreliable advice, but what music creators need is information that speaks directly to their craft and its physical, cognitive, and emotional demands, as well as the environmental and organisational challenges they face. InTune has been created by clinicians with performing arts medicine expertise, to enable musicians and composers to make informed decisions when addressing health concerns. InTune is not a replacement for a medical assessment but signposts users to further support when needed, while improving occupational health, saving users' time, and supporting them to have healthier working lives and sustainable careers.’

Recent research conducted by BAPAM shows that 75 per cent of those working in the performing arts will at some point face a career-impacting physical or psychological health problem. With InTune, PRS Member’s Fund and BAPAM aim to offer support to help avoid or mitigate these career-limiting issues. InTune is free to use, and all the resources provided on the platform have the clinical backing of specialist medical charity BAPAM.

PRS Members’ Fund general secretary John Logan said: ‘Working in the music industry is tough. Multiple challenges on both health and finances can affect songwriters and composers’ capacity to continue creating. We’re delighted to have collaborated with BAPAM to develop InTune – designed as a comprehensive and clinically robust tool to give an in-the-moment view of how you are doing, along with personalised information and resources.’