National Centre for Creative Health
The National Centre for Creative Health's mission is to 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.
The National Centre for Creative Health is a registered Charity with a board of trustees and a small staff team. We are supported by an Advisory Group, and support a network of Creative Health Champions, a RCGP Special Interest Group, and an International Arts in Pharmacy Special Interest Group. We work with a wide range of partners and stakeholders. The Creative Health Review, delivered in partnership with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing, was published in 2023. It builds on the 2017 Creative Health report and makes recommendations to government and metro mayors, and forms the basis of our policy work. We support the development of research via our partnerships with University College London, the Royal Society for Public Health Special Interest Group in Arts, Health and Wellbeing and a number of research centres working in relevant fields.
Programs & Activities
We work with Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) across England. In partnership with NHS England and ICSs in Gloucestershire; West Yorkshire; Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin; and Suffolk and North East Essex we developed a Creative Health Toolkit to support ICSs across the country. With the support of Arts Council England we delivered the Creative Health Associates Programme with seven Creative Health Associates hosted by Integrated Care Boards, one in each NHS region. We are a partner in the six year national research programme: Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities, from 2021-2027.