Hearst, J., Gorf, H., Penn, F., Opher, S., Mortimer, A., Davies, L., East, C., Garrett, L., Pearce, M., Rule, E., Waterson, H., & Chatterjee, H. J. (2025) Embedding Creative Health in Integrated Care Systems: Insights from Gloucestershire. London: University College London.

Read the Full Report: https://ncch.org.uk/uploads/Embedding-Creative-Health-in-Integrated-Care-Systems-Insights-from-Gloucestershire.pdf

As part of the Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities programme, NCCH has partnered with University College London (UCL) to conduct ‘deep dives’ into health systems across England.

The deep dives entail qualitative investigation, in collaboration with systems leaders, to better understand the enablers and barriers of integrating creative health into workstreams. Information is then triangulated with systems reports and data infographics to form a comprehensive understanding of what works and why. We are particularly interested in how data is prioritised and presented internally to make the case for creative health, as well as what systems infrastructure has been created, to understand how advocacy is translated into workable and sustainable creative health solutions.

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.