National Centre for Creative Health

The health conditions spotlighted throughout this booklet appear within the NHS’s Core20PLUS5 strategy and are recognised as the ‘Major Conditions' contributing to ill health in the UK (first identified within the 2023 Major Conditions strategy). These strategies make use of national datasets to identify priority populations and health needs for policy and commissioning.

In addition, there is a section on Frailty and Falls Prevention. This responds to the NHS’s requirement to reduce demand in hospitals. Due to our ageing population, frailty and falls are a leading cause of hospital admissions.

Creative Health can help to support all these conditions.

You can access/download the resource here

Creative Health at a Glance | Booklet (PDF) >>

Creative health in practice

Poster Print Outs

If you would like to share the contents of this booklet in your workplace, each page is available as a print-out fact sheet/ poster. Click the health need below to access the associated poster.

Dementia | Poster (PDF) >>

Cancer | Poster (PDF) >>

Hypertension | Poster (PDF) >>

Maternity | Poster (PDF) >>

Severe Mental Illness (SMI) | Poster (PDF) >>

Mental Ill-health | Poster (PDF) >>

Cardiovascular Disease | Poster (PDF) >>

Chronic Respiratory Disease | Poster (PDF) >>

Musculoskeletal Disorders | Poster (PDF) >>

Frailty and Falls Prevention | Poster (PDF) >>

Find Out More

There is an ever-strengthening evidence-base in the field of Creative Health. The examples selected for this resource were chosen based on succinctness, variety of arts forms, and relevance to key strategies.

We encourage you to explore further should you wish to incorporate Creative Health provisions into your health system or service design. For an in-depth review of the latest evidence, see the Creative Health Review: How Policy Can Embrace Creative Health report (2023).

The ‘Creative Health at a Glance’ resource was developed by our Midlands Creative Health Associate, Jane Hearst.

Where next?

The NCCH has worked in partnership with NHS England to develop a Creative Health Toolkit which includes examples of how creative health can support with:

Self-Management of Health Conditions

The National Centre for Creative Health

NCCH supports health and care sector professionals in organisations and systems to achieve the benefits of creative health approaches for patients and service users.

We publish a monthly newsletter especially created for professionals working across health and care. Please do subscribe here and/or share with colleagues working across Primary Care, Provider Trusts, ICBs, Public Health, Social Care and across the NHS, so they can access the latest news for creative health!

Downloadable information

Download this information sheet in PDF format