Creative Health South West
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About this online resource pack
About this online resource pack
The pages that follow include further details of Creative Health projects, organisations, links and key resources that help to illustrate the range and scope of Creative Health programmes and assets in the South West.
The links to Health sector networks and NCCH website are at the bottom of this page
The menu divides the information into the DIRECTORY of organisations and professionals working in the sector and the LEARNING resources which includes education, training and online links to key documents, guidelines and best practice.
This is a starting point... if there is information about SW resources or organisations that you want to have added please email penny@pennycalvert.uk or use this link to upload more details: https://forms.gle/qRNxdSCFP8QLWYt4A
About Creative Health
About Creative Health
The definition of Creative Health is from The National Centre for Creative Health who aim to advance good practice and research, inform policy and promote collaboration, helping foster the conditions for creative health to be integral to health and social care and wider systems.
"We define creative health as creative approaches and activities which have benefits for our health and wellbeing.
Activities can include visual and performing arts, crafts, film, literature , cooking and creative activities in nature, such as gardening; approaches may involve creative and innovative ways to approach health and care services, co-production, education and workforce development.
Creative health can be applied in homes, communities, cultural institutions and heritage sites, and healthcare settings. Creative health can contribute to the prevention of ill health, promotion of health behaviours, management of long term conditions and treatment and recovery across the life course.
The National Centre for Creative Health and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing's Creative Health Review: How Policy Can Embrace Creative Health highlights the potential for creative health to help tackle pressing issues in health and social care and more widely. The Review has gathered evidence that shows the benefits of creative health in relation to major current challenges, and examples of where this is already working in practice.
Key Messages
Creative health is fundamental to a healthy and prosperous society, and its benefits should be available and accessible to all.
Creative health should form an integral part of a 21st -century health and social care system – one that is holistic, person-centred, and which focuses on reducing inequalities and supporting people to live well for longer.
Creating the conditions for creative health flourish requires a joined-up, whole system approach incorporating health systems, local authorities, schools, and the cultural and VCSE sectors.
Extract from https://ncch.org.uk/creative-health-review
Creative Health diagrams
Creative Health diagrams
Exploring the drivers of population health
the strategic reach for Creative Health
the shared assets and opportunities of the Health, Cultural/creative and Community sectors
exploring the visibility of Creative Health in Health Sector data systems
Links to key sites
Links to key sites
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