Creative Health Review Launch

The National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPG AHW) launched a new Creative Health Review on Thursday 13th October.
The Review will be led by a panel of 16 commissioners, chaired by Lord Howarth of Newport. They will consider evidence across key themes linked to pressing policy issues and generate recommendations to Government.
Find out more about the Review - ncch.org.uk/cr...
We know that creativity has a powerful influence on our health and wellbeing. In the five years since the publication of the APPG on Arts Health and Wellbeing’s Inquiry Report, Creative Health, there have been significant developments in research and practice. Our understanding of the ways that creativity can influence health is continuously evolving and within the NHS and social care there is growing recognition of the important role that creative health can play in supporting our health and wellbeing.
Creative health can provide innovative solutions within health and social care and more widely, helping to address issues such as health inequalities and the additional challenges we face as we recover from Covid-19. The Creative Heath Review will support the development of a cross-governmental strategy for creative health in order to maximise this potential.
The online launch was chaired by Lord Alan Howarth, NCCH Chair and Co-Chair of the APPG AHW.
As part of the online launch we heard from:
•Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire
•Madeleine Bunting, Author of Labours of Love, The Crisis of Care
•Tracey Crouch CBE, MP
• Dame Caroline Dinenage DBE, MP
• Monty Don OBE, Writer, Gardener and Broadcaster
•Dr Darren Henley CBE, CEO of Arts Council England
•Professor Martin Marshall CBE, Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners and GP
•James Sanderson, Director of Community Health and Personalised Care, NHS England
•Debs Teale, Lead Peer Support Development Coordinator at the South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and NCCH Trustee
•Rob Webster CBE, Chief Executive of the NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
•Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey OBE, Crossbench member of the House of Lords, Co-Chair of the Foundation for Future London, and Chancellor of the University of Nottingham
About the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPG AHW)
The APPG AHW was formed in 2014 and is a cross party group of parliamentarians with a shared interest in the field of arts, health and wellbeing. The APPG AHW led a two-year inquiry 2015-17, which resulted in a report, Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing. The National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) has data processing responsibility for the APPG AHW. The Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance hosts information about the APPG AHW here.
About the National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH)
NCCH aims to advance good practice and research, inform policy and promote collaboration, helping to foster the conditions for creative health to be integral to health and social care and wider systems. It was set up in response to Recommendation 1 in the APPG AHW report: Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing and became a registered charity in 2020.