Residents of a Cornish town have turned to song and video in an effort to recruit a new GP.

Many residents of Lostwithiel appear on a video promoting the attractions of the town for a potential doctor. The video was made by an arts community interest company, Really Lovely Projects, based in the town.

The song is set “loosely” to the tune of a Nina Simone song and promotes the town’s highlights such as a castle, the River Fowey, a railway station and a fish and chip shop. It also includes lines such as “You can negotiate your terms/ if you keep us free from germs” and “We’ve folks with asthma and young new mothers/We’ve limping fathers and snot-filled others”.

Emma Mansfield, a spokesperson for Really Lovely Projects, the arts-led community interest company that made the video, told The Guardian: “Our local GP contacted us and said he’d been trying to recruit for a new doctor but was having no luck and felt he had to do something quite radical. Everywhere is finding it hard to find GPs at the moment, and we want an outstanding doctor who’s going to really stay here for 20 years. Everybody came out and took part. It’s all locally made, a local musician did the backing track and the local choir sang it.”