Creativity and Social Prescribing

Event hosted on Thursday 6th March 2025.

What is Social Prescribing for Creativity, Health and Connection?  How can we support patients and people with extra needs to engage with creative activities to support their health and wellbeing? In this National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) webinar hosted by NCCH's Creative Health Associates Programme, we heard from organisations/partnerships using the Social Prescribing model with the webinar's host Esther Watts, South East Creative Health Associate. The session included a Panel Discussion followed by a Q&A. 

Speakers included:

• Esther Watts, SE Creative Health Associate, NCCH

• Monica Boulton from the National Academy for Social Prescribing

• Dr Simon Opher MP on the Gloucestershire model

• Kathryn Lambert, Head of Arts and Health at Hywel Dda University Health Board and Rhian Rees, Senior Public Health Practitioner, Hywel Dda University Health Board on the Hywel Da

• Leigh Chalmers, Heritage Inclusion Manager at Wessex Archaeology

• Zoe Prichard, Project Co-ordinator, Well-City Salisbury 

This session is for: Commissioners and GPs and others in systems interested in Creative Prescribing. Those looking for a model to support the funding of activities: social prescribing leads, strategic creative health organisations, and academics.