The National Centre for Creative Health and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing have published a major report, the Creative Health Review: How Policy Can Embrace Creative Health, evidencing that creative health needs to form an integral part of a 21st-century health and social care system to reduce health inequalities and build social capital.
The Creative Health Review outlines the immense benefits of creative health and advocates for its immediate, widespread adoption. The report makes crucial recommendations to support the UK Government, elected mayors and policymakers in maximising the potential of creative health, with a dedicated cross-departmental Creative Health Strategy at the centre. The report demonstrates, through growing evidence and by showcasing innovative approaches and activities, that creative health proactively prevents illness, promotes wellbeing, and helps to manage long-term conditions. It outlines the profound significance of creative health in addressing the formidable challenges our health and social care systems face, and sets out a roadmap for policymakers to provide a more creative and healthier future for all. Current challenges demand a new approach. One that is forward-thinking, preventative and person-centred.
The case studies in the report show how creative health can reduce pressure on health and social care services both by preventing the onset of ill health and by supporting the management of long-term conditions, offering patients effective, non-clinical approaches that reduce reliance on healthcare services and result in cost savings. The report also examines successful models across the UK where partnerships between arts, health, social care and education are yielding positive results without high costs.
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6 сен 2024
