What

Our priorities are: health inequalities; advancing good practice and research; informing policy; and promoting collaboration. We are working with a range of partners and stakeholders across the UK to create place-based ‘Hubs’, develop partnership and collaboration ‘Hives’ and co-produce creative learning in ‘Huddles’.

Learning will be shared between Hubs, Hives and Huddles with the aim to help foster the conditions in which creative health approaches can become integral to health and care and wider systems over time.

We will base evaluation of our activities on our Theory of Change.

Hubs

Systems & Places

We are working with Integrated Care Systems in Gloucestershire; West Yorkshire; Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin; and Suffolk and North East Essex to explore models for integrating creative health at a systems level. This programme is supported by NHS England. We have developed a Creative Health Toolkit which will support Integrated Care Systems across the country.

With the support of Arts Council England we are delivering the Creative Health Associates Programme with seven Creative Health Associates hosted by Integrated Care Boards, one in each NHS region.

Click on the map to find out more about all our programmes.

We are working with colleagues in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to share learning from the different systems and policy environments in the four nations.

Wales

Scotland

Northern Ireland

Hives

Partnerships & Collaborations

Academic Health Science Centres and Networks

We are supporting King’s Health Partners to disseminate learning from the SHAPER Programme.

We are in discussion with Health Innovation Networks (formally Academic Health Science Networks) about health inequalities in connection with our research programmes.

National organisations and networks

We are working with Care England to explore how we can engage with and support the wider care sector.

We have a Memorandum of Understanding with the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance and the LENs (Lived Experience Network). They are key partners for the NCCH in connecting to their regional champions and networks of more than 5000 members.

We are working with the National Academy for Social Prescribing to support work across shared priority areas and regional infrastructure development.

Huddles

Co-production & Creativity

Creative Health Huddles are inter-disciplinary learning activities for small groups to explore co-production with creativity and lived experience at the heart. Huddles may be developed in the workplace or in short residential programmes.

Discover more about our current Huddles >>