YORK Minster is helping the NHS celebrate its landmark 70th birthday in style.

Singer Linda Nolan is to host a special choral concert, which will see the cathedral filled with staff, patients and guests, including the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt.

Performers include the NHS Greenwich and Lewisham choir who will sing their charity single, With a Little Help From my Friends, which is hoping to reach number one on the chart as the NHS turns 70 on July 5.

Also appearing are Britain’s Got Talent finalists, the B-Positive Choir, the HEY Choir, made up of staff from Hull and East Yorkshire hospitals, and the Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Brass Band, who were recently crowned champions at the brass band French Open.

Eve Senior, 15, a survivor of the Manchester bomb attack who now wants to be a nurse, and Amen Dhesi, who became a carer for his dad, who has bipolar disorder, at just 13, are set to give personal testimonials.

More than one thousand NHS staff from around the UK will be in the Minster at the invitation-only event on July 5 at 7pm, as well as representatives of charities, Healthwatch, councils and other key NHS partners, such as universities and a young people’s forum.

The Minster will also be one of dozens of landmarks across the country which will light up in blue for the birthday.