Creative Health Review
Launched in December 2023, The Creative Health Review highlights the potential for creative health to help tackle pressing issues in health and social care and more widely, including health inequalities and the additional challenges we face as we recover from Covid-19.
Gloucestershire Creative Health Consortium Paper
Gloucestershire Creative Health Consortium’s pandemic paper ‘Providing Creative Health in Gloucestershire during Lockdown’ is available to download here.
This brand new magazine is by and for the cancer community from integrative cancer care charity Yes to Life and creative health charity Artlift, who are based in Gloucestershire.
What Works Wellbeing
What Works Centre for Wellbeing believes in improving people’s wellbeing as the ultimate goal of effective policy and community action. Great resource for reports into topics such as ‘visual art and mental health’ and ‘space, place and loneliness’.
Co Produced Arts and Health Interventions (Regional Meeting)
Originally broadcast on Wednesday 27th May 2020 at 10:00am GMT. This meeting focuses on working collaboratively to plan, test, fund and deliver co-produced arts and health interventions in Gloucestershire.
Arts and Cultural Commissioning Toolkit
This toolkit will help you understand and engage with commissioning. Being commissioned provides an opportunity for the arts and cultural sector to deliver contracts for a whole range of public services whilst other funding is under increasing pressure.
NHS Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group
A short update from Jules Ford (Senior Programme Manager for Social Prescribing and Cultural Commissioning at Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group) - "How the arts and culture are being embedded across Gloucestershire’s health system".
The Happy Museum
Launched in April 2011, the Happy Museum Project provides a leadership framework for museums to develop a holistic approach to wellbeing and sustainability. The project re-imagines the museum’s purpose as steward of people, place and planet, supporting institutional and community resilience in the face of global financial and environmental challenges.
SW Regional Arts and Health Framework
Arts & Health South West has worked with a group of arts and health practitioners over several years. They are informally called ‘area leads’ and represent each of the counties in the south west region. Together they have developed the first draft of a Strategic Framework for Arts, Health and Wellbeing in the South West.
OF/BY/FOR ALL
OF/BY/FOR ALL methods help organizations connect with their local communities in effective, authentic ways. The more an organization is representative OF its community, the more people feel seen and heard. The more programming is created BY the community, the more people feel ownership. The more programming is FOR the community, the more everyone wants to participate.
The Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance
The Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance is a national membership organisation representing everyone who believes that creativity and cultural engagement can transform our health and wellbeing.
The Warwick - Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scales - (S)WEMWBS
The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scales were developed to enable the measuring of mental wellbeing in the general population and the evaluation of projects, programmes and policies which aim to improve mental wellbeing.
Creative and Credible
Document providing effective ways to evaluate arts projects and programmes that seek to improve health and wellbeing. A guide to evaluating the arts.
Social Prescribing Network
A definite go to page, sharing knowledge and best practice to support social prescribing at a local and national level and to inform good quality research and evaluation.
NHS England’s information on Social Prescribing
Social prescribing is a key component of Universal Personalised Care. It is an approach that connects people to activities, groups, and services in their community to meet the practical, social and emotional needs that affect their health and wellbeing.
Arts & Health South West
Arts & Health South West is a learning, advocacy, networking and development organisation. We want more people to experience the arts and culture for the benefit of their health and wellbeing.
You can find a range of arts and health case studies in the South West.
Creative Health Inquiry Report
All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Arts, Health and Wellbeing two-year inquiry led to the publication of the Creative Health report in 2017. Since then, the APPG has been working to support implementation of the ten recommendations, leading to the launch of the National Centre for Creative Health.