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Over the past few months, the Mobilising Community Assets team have been undertaking a new workstream which focused on setting up the building blocks for a stronger economic business case for creative health.  Despite a growing evidence base, a significant stumbling block in the closer relationship between the creative health ecosystem and health, is the lack of a defined business case that sets out the economic basis for commissioning. Through a series of co-production and participatory research activities we have been examining what outcomes matter most to communities, how value is understood and evidenced, and what support is needed to support evaluation feasibility in Creative Health.

This work had produced a number of new outputs including:

Fujiwara, D., Dolan, P., Muelas, A., Segarra, E., Ruiz, C., Newton, U., McNeill, E., de Andrade, M., Fancourt, D., Mundra, J. and Chatterjee, H.J. (2026). Guidelines on Economic Evaluation in Creative Health. London: University College London. 

Available from: https://ncch.org.uk/uploads/Guidelines-on-Economic-Evaluation-in-Creative-Health.pdf 

McNeill, E., Newton, U., de Andrade, M., Fancourt, D., Fujiwara, D., Mundra, J., Moss, D., Rule, E., Hobart, E., Sutcliffe, A. & Chatterjee, H.J.  (2026). Creative Health Commissioning:  An economic business case for improving population health and reducing health inequalities. London: University College London. 

Available from: https://ncch.org.uk/uploads/Creative-Health-Commissioning_An-Economic-Business-Case.pdf 

 

MCA Creative Health Economics Team

  • Prof Helen Chatterjee (MCA Programme Director, UCL)
  • Dr Elaine McNeill (UCL)
  • Prof Daisy Fancourt (UCL)
  • Dr Daniel Fujiwara (TSC Impact & Harmon)
  • Professor Paul Dolan (London School of Economics)
  • Uisce Newton (University of Edinburgh)
  • Prof Marisa de Andrade (University of Edinburgh)
  • Alberto Muelas (Harmon Consulting)
  • Elena Segerra (Harmon Consulting)
  • Carlos Ruiz (Harmon Consulting)
  • Jag Mundra (National Academy for Social Prescribing)

For further information contact: community.assets@ucl.ac.uk 

Resource Output from the Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities (MCA) Programme

Mobilising Community Assets (MCA) is a three-phase UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funded Research Programme running from 2021 to 2027. It is coordinated by the Culture-Nature-Health Research Group at University College London, in partnership with the National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) and funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), led by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), with Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Medical Research Council (MRC). MCA has encouraged the projects it has funded throughout the UK to share knowledge and approaches to integration of community assets into the integrated care structures that exist in the local communities.