Welcome

Mosaic
Poetry
Patient on harp
Healing Arts image
Ladder to the Moon - South Pacific
Lime - artist - Suki Chan Radcliffe Primary Health Care Centre
Nordoff Robbins
Arts @ Callington Road. Image by Paul Highnam’

Welcome to the new national resource for creativity and health.

It is designed to act as a signpost to help you to find individuals and organisations which are using the arts to influence health, the research and guidelines which support this work and other sources of information about all aspects of arts, creativity and wellbeing.

What is Arts in Health?

Ladder to the Moon - South Pacific
Music in Hospitals
MMU - workshop organisers and participants
Healing Arts

There is now an overwhelming body of evidence demonstrating that participation in the arts and access to a range of arts opportunities can dramatically improve health outcomes and increase wellbeing. By supplementing medicine and care, the arts can improve the health of people who experience mental or physical health problems. Engaging in the arts can promote prevention of disease and build wellbeing.

Resources

Wall mural being painted

The arts have been linked to wellbeing for thousands of years. The Ancient Greeks and Chinese linked health to creativity and the arts and for hundreds of years, artists have been involved in exploring health and creating work in and for healthcare environments.

Case Study

The King’s Fund’s Enhancing the Healing Environment Programme

 The Enhancing the Healing Environment (EHE) programme was launched by HRH The Prince of Wales, President of The King’s Fund in 2000, as part of The King’s Fund’s activities to mark the millennium.

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Supported by the Arts Council England