Policy
Our policy work, building on the Creative Health Report (2017) and subsequent Creative Health Review, demonstrates how creative health can support the government to achieve its cross-departmental missions. In particular, creative health should be integral to a healthcare system that prioritises prevention and community-based approaches, incorporating the wider determinants of health and health inequalities. With devolution widening across the country, creative health can help combined authorities improve health, wellbeing and prosperity in their populations.
The NCCH provides the secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Creative Health which was formed following the election of the Labour Government in 2024. A programme of roundtable events in parliament is exploring the role of creative health in relation to the three shifts identified as priorities for the 10 Year Health plan. Policy and evidence briefings are provided to inform ministers and other policy makers.