Social Care Roundtable On Jan 26th NCCH and the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Arts, Health and Wellbeing held our third roundtable as part of the Creative Health Review, on the timely and important theme of social care. Looking at social care right across the…
There is a growing body of evidence indicating the arts have a role to play in promoting good health and preventing and managing illness. WHO has called for governments to take an intersectoral approach, both within and across traditional areas…
On this week’s episode, I am speaking to GP and Medical Educator, Dr Louise Younie.We explore the concept of creative enquiry and how we can bring develop the human dimension in medical education. Louise shares her own journey with recovery…
Pioneering research by UCL shows a powerful link between health and arts & cultural engagement, opening up novel ways of managing and treating mental and physical health conditions. With NHS waitlists and treatment backlogs covering the front pages of most…
Abstract Introduction Postpartum depression (PPD) affects around one in seven women globally, with these women in need of non-pharmaceutical treatment strategies. There is a long history of the benefits of singing for maternal mental health, and promising research exists showing the…
In 2022 Entelechy Arts coordinated a new project Thriving Communities, working on behalf of a consortium of culture and health organisations in Lewisham. Between January – August 2022 we worked with 12 local cultural organisations, plus social prescribing and health teams…
We’re delighted to confirm that Great Mental Health Day is returning and will take place on Friday, 27 January 2023. On the last Friday of January 2022, we marked London’s first ever Great Mental Health Day. Thousands of you across…
The CultureForHealth project is proud to present the “Scoping review of culture, well-being, and health interventions and their evidence, impacts, challenges and policy recommendations for Europe.” The aim of this scoping review is to synthesise existing evidence on the positive…
This project aimed to develop a comprehensive set of evaluation tools to assess the accessibility and inclusion of families with children on the autism spectrum in cultural institutions. A stakeholder team conducted interviews, reviewed museum artifacts, and observed museum programming.…
Georgia Gardner shares her experiences advising on Dance/Connect, a project funded by the Loneliness and Social Isolation Mental Health Research Network. During her time advising on the project, she noticed similarities between coproduction – the process of researchers and experts by experience…
