{"id":364657,"date":"2026-04-05T09:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/364657\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:07:08","slug":"nhs-staff-star-in-london-musical-about-antibiotic-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/364657\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS staff star in London musical about antibiotic resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A musical exploring the global threat of antibiotic resistance has made its London premiere, featuring a chorus of 60 NHS healthcare workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lifeline follows the story of Sir Alexander Fleming&#8217;s discovery of penicillin at St Mary&#8217;s Hospital in Paddington in 1928, weaving his historical journey with a contemporary narrative centred on a junior doctor in Edinburgh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The production aims to highlight the urgent reality of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a crisis Fleming himself warned of decades ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prof Ashley Brown, a consultant at St Mary&#8217;s who has worked at the institution for 25 years, said &#8220;singing is good for the heart&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A musical exploring the global threat of antibiotic resistance has made its London premiere, featuring a chorus of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-364657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}