Wearing hoodies and baseball caps, and festooned with 'bling' jewellery, they are doing their best to look like American rappers.
Sadly, the fact that they are middle-aged British nurses is all too apparent.
And the lyrics - including the line, 'Now to clean between your fingers, Just in case the bad bug lingers' - are unlikely to propel them to the top of the charts.
This is how one health care trust has decided to spend public money - by producing an £1,800 rap video about how to clean your hands.
It is available to watch on NHS Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust's own channel on the YouTube website. It can also be bought in DVD form for £25.
Officials at the health service body claim it is a fun and innovative way of spreading the message that cleaning your hands properly is vital for good health and tackling superbugs infections.
Yet in the month the DVD has been available, not a single copy has been sold.
And in the nine months the video has been available on YouTube, only 42 people had watched it by yesterday evening.
The stars of the show are two matrons and three nurses from Milton Keynes - Sue Barber, Jenny Brooks, Gill Case, Naomi Fleming and Julie Uglow. All are married and aged from 35 to 50.
In the video, they combine demonstrations of handwashing technique with attempts at hiphopstyle hand gestures.
Their performance ends with a particularly questionable series of 'high-five' hand slaps with each other, before they swagger off with the hoods of their hoodies up.
Mrs Brooks, who runs the Milton Keynes infection prevention and control team, insisted yesterday the video in which she performs was an effective training tool.
She said: 'It's a serious message, delivered in a humorous, memorable way and hopefully one that will be useful to a wide audience, particularly for staff who speak English as a second language.
'We came up with the lyrics ourselves-and just set them to music.' Not everyone is convinced, however. TaxPayers' Alliance spokesman Fiona McEvoy said: 'Nurses should be looking after the ill and injured, not performing in cringeworthy videos.'
'There are ways of emphasising the importance of good hygiene - and paying for a professionally produced rap video isn't one of them.'
A spokesman for the Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust said: 'It's a little unfair to say the rap is cringeworthy, because it's a good way of getting the hand-washing message across.'
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