How Creative Health supports the NHS Long Term Plan - a South West view

How Creative Health supports the NHS Long Term Plan - a South West view.

Filmed live on 1st October 2024 from Wiltshire Music Centre.

Hosted by the NCCH South West Creative Health Associate – Penny Calvert 

As part of the event, attendees heard from panellists on key themes about inspiring creative health work already taking place, and the importance of collaboration and interaction. Overall the day focused on a number of areas including:

• Data: measuring what matters to both communities and the public sectors

• The role of Music across the life course

• The role of Libraries as Creative Health assets

• Mental health and lived experience

• South West Creative Health training and resources

Agenda of the full day events: https://ncch.org.uk/uploads/How-Creative-Health-supports-the-NHS-Long-Term-Plan-Agenda.pdf

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/100oD4goMXMQDQ8CCkFA4CSyXax5Agvu8RIfxBNylEzs/edit

The event has been divided into three videos for easy watching! 

Video 1 of 3 includes:

SESSION ONE:

• Welcome by host National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) South West Creative Health Associate - Penny Calvert. 

• Opening Statement by Peter Collins, Chief Medical Officer, NHS

• Music across the life course Panel discussion: Orchestras Live, Elevate, Celebrating Age Wiltshire, Sounds Better CIC

• Live Music Now: Colettes Story - a Carnegie Lullaby programme using music to impact perinatal mental health

• Creative Health outside standard cultural spaces - Libraries, Hospitals, heritage Wessex Archaeology, Libraries unlimited, ArtCare

Video 2 of 3 includes:

SESSION TWO: Creative Health Programmes in Community settings 

• Eve Ashton - Libraries Unlimited in Devon 

• Lesley Self - ArtCare's Healthcare history programme 

• Ruth Yoxon - Wessex Archaeology's participatory health and wellbeing programme 

SESSION THREE: Place- Based Partnerships - a theory of change in action: creative health from major projects to commissioned service 

SESSION FOUR: Data and evaluation 

• Penny Calvert and Amabel Mortimer [to be viewed in conjunction with 'Data and indicators in creative health strategies' NCCH recording - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiQGHMYdGBM&t=848s]; 

Video 3 of 3 includes:

SESSION FIVE: Creative Health education and training panel 

SESSION SIX: Creative health and mental health 

• Reprezent - using broadcast media to create peer to peer support for young people 

• James' story, Well Image - using photography to support mild to medium mental health 

• David Davies, Celebrating Age Wiltshire - Mens Creative conversations - supporting older men in Wiltshire

SESSION SEVEN: Nature 

• Roy Goddin, Root Causes CIC - using nature to support veterans in Devon 

• Jules Ford, National Academy for Social Prescribing - National green social prescribing delivery capacity assessment: final report Summing up 

• Saili Katebe - Creative reflection on the day 

• Penny Calvert - Closing address