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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.

Research

The NCCH is linked to University College London through our trustee, Professor Helen Chatterjee, and has a working relationship with the staff and students on the Creative Health Masters programme at UCL.

The Royal Society for Public Health Special Interest Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing was a research partner throughout the Creative Health inquiry and continues to be an important research partner for the NCCH.

The NCCH has research relationships with a range of universities and research centres working in this field including King’s College London, and the Research Centre for Arts and Wellbeing at Edge Hill University. 

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Creative Health Review

The NCCH and All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPG) Creative Health Review highlights the potential for creative health to help tackle pressing issues in health, social care and more widely. A panel of commissioners, with a wide breadth of expertise,  translated its findings into recommendations for policymakers to encourage and inform the development of cross-governmental creative health strategy.

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Health Inequalities Research Programme

The NCCH is partner in a six-year national research programme: 'Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities’ funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in collaboration with Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and Medical Research Council (MRC).

Find out more about 'Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities’ >>