CHWA Resource Portal
This site contains information for anyone who wants to understand more about or develop creative or cultural practice that relates to health and wellbeing. It includes inspirational manifestos, helpful toolkits, and guides to what evidence is already out there, and how to evidence your own work.
Creative Health Toolkit
The National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) has worked in partnership with NHS England Personalised Care Team and Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) in Gloucestershire; Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin; Suffolk and North East Essex; and West Yorkshire, to develop this toolkit to support other ICSs to embed creative health in their systems.
Creative Health Quality Framework
The Creative Health Quality Framework is a ground-breaking tool that clearly articulates what “good” looks like for creative and cultural initiatives that aim to support people’s health and wellbeing.
The Creative Health Quality Framework consists of a set of downloadable PDF resources based around eight Creative Health Quality Principles. It offers clear guidance on how to use these principles to deliver safe and effective projects.
Creative Health Review 2023
The National Centre for Creative Health and the All Party Parliamentary Group Inquiry into Arts, Health and Wellbeing’s Creative Health Review: How Policy Can Embrace Creative Health highlights the potential for Creative Health to tackle pressing issues in health and social care and more widely.
Arts Council England Creative Health and Wellbeing Plan
Creative Health & Wellbeing is a plan for how we’re going to work within health and social care, and how we’ll promote collaboration between organisations and practitioners in the creative and health sectors.
Arts and Health Evaluation: Navigating the Landscape
UCL’s Social Biobehavioural Research Group have produced this resource which provides a comprehensive mapping of what arts and health evaluation frameworks and toolkits exist, as well as provides general tips and advice. It is designed to support anyone interested in arts and health to navigate the landscape of evaluation.
The National Academy for Social Prescribing – Arts and Culture
NASP resource detailing how arts and culture on prescription can support better health and wellbeing. Includes case studies, evidence and support on implementing projects
Creative Health Stories Podcast
Creative Health Stories showcase the benefits of creativity to public health through research and thoughtful conversations with professionals and those with lived experience. Through the podcast and audio commissions, Laura Bailey shares what ‘creative health’ means and how creativity is helping people.