Creative Health

MariaPCC 17 August 2023

Creative health involves creative approaches and activities that prevent ill-health and
promote health and wellbeing. It aids the management of long-term conditions, treatments, and recovery across the life course. It can help strengthen social cohesion and reduce health inequalities. Activities can include visual and performing arts, crafts, film, literature, cooking and creative activities in nature, such as gardening. Creative health can complement modern medicine to help people improve their health and wellbeing and reduce pressures on healthcare services. This approach may directly impact physical and mental health outcomes through engagement of the creative imagination, increased social connection in group activities or by improving the environments in which people live.

The National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPG AHW) launched a Creative Health Review on 13th October 2022, and held a series of themed roundtables between Autumn 2022 and Spring 2023. The Review is now in the final stages of analysing findings and will be publishing a report and recommendations in December 2023. The Review aims to highlight 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. The Review has been gathering evidence that shows the benefits of creative health in relation to major current challenges, and examples of where this is already working in practice. As well as the roundtable discussions and consulting with the Review’s Lived Experience Advisory Panel, the Review also welcomed public input via a call for contributions.

The Review is led by a panel of 15 Commissioners, which includes leaders from the health and culture sectors, artists and parliamentarians. With a wide breadth of expertise, the Commissioners will help translate evidence for creative health into recommendations for policymakers, to encourage and inform the development of a cross-governmental creative health strategy. The Commissioners are now in the final stages of analysing findings and a report will be published in December 2023.

Through the themed roundtables and consultation with the Review’s Lived Experience Advisory Panel, commissioners have been presented with the most up-to-date evidence and examples of creative health approaches and activities with demonstrable benefits to health.

Find out more about the Creative Health Review here.

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