National Centre for Creative Health

🌻 Creative health can be a cost-effective way to support NHS staff wellbeing.

See how Dr Jane Stevens embedded creative health at Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust ⬇️
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#CreativeHealth #StaffWellbeing

🚨 Britain’s ketamine crisis is growing. New research from Blackpool shows why creative, community-based approaches should be part of the response, supporting prevention, and recovery.

Read more ⤵️
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📘 How can creative health 🎨🎵🎤🎭🍃🧶 become part of everyday healthcare?

NCCH & @mobcommassets.bsky.social's report looks at the case of Gloucestershire with positive lessons on leadership, partnership, testing ideas, data and funding.

Read it here: ncch.org.uk/uploads/Embe...

📷 Credit, Leyla Ozkan

RSPH Health & Wellbeing Awards Established in 2007, the RSPH Health & Wellbeing Awards is now the UK's premier awards scheme for promoting health and wellbeing.

🏆 Applications are now open for the @rsph.bsky.social Health & Wellbeing Awards 2026. Nominate someone you know or work with! The awards celebrate work improving population health across arts and health, mental health, wellbeing & more!

Apply by 27 March 2026 👉

🎨 Great opportunity – Landscape Artist of the Year (Sky Arts)

Sky Arts encourages applications from creative health practitioners, health professionals who are artists, or those with lived experience of creativity supporting wellbeing.

⏳ Apply by Mon 23 March 2026 here 👉 skyartsartistoftheyear.tv

Join the Pharmacy SIG Webinar on Creative approaches to pharmacy practice📣 Its SIG Chair Ranjita Dhital will be joined in conversation with others leading on Pharmacy creative practice, strategic leadership & more!

Friday 20th February, 12 - 1pm
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📘 Featured on p.17 of the NCCH & @rsph.bsky.social Creative Health Research Round-Up Report, Creative Health Communication Framework explores how services can clearly communicate in mental health services

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📷St George's 23 Health and Wellbeing Hub. Credit: Mae London

🎨 🖼️ Arts in Hospitals: Why Creative Health Matters for Patients, Staff and the NHS - check out the latest guest blog from the National Arts in Hospitals
Network here: ncch.org.uk/blog/arts-in...

Image courtesy of Corbin O’Grady Studio & Art for Life

The January NCCH Health & Care Newsletter is here! 🎉
This month:
• Creative Health Leads in Systems – applications still open
• Blogs and resources on the positive impact of the arts in hospital

👉 Read it here: mailchi.mp/3678074646e7...

A Dance in Cancer Care Session by Move Dance Feel. Credit: Camilla Greenwell

🎉 Our Creative Health Research Round-Up 2025 report is now live! After a strong UK-wide response, this new report brings together the latest evidence showing how creativity supports health, wellbeing & equity.
📘 ncch.org.uk/news/creativ...

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National Centre for Creative Health The National Centre for Creative Health will advance good practice and research, inform policy and promote collaboration, helping foster the conditions for creative health to be integral to health and...

📣📣We’re proud & excited to announce the publication of our deep dive report, in collaboration with @ncch.bsky.social and NHS Gloucestershire. A brilliant exploration of how Gloucestershire ICB is embedding #creativehealth across its system. Read (& share widely!) here➡️ ncch.org.uk/blog/embeddi...

Missed the Nursing SIG for Creative Health launch? Watch the recording & get involved. "Creative health should not sit on the margins of nursing education. It can play a role in preparing nurses for holistic, person-centred care ” says Prof Victoria Ridgway ▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=BfYCZJByZEQ&t=1888s

NCCH and @rsph.bsky.social will present the Creative Health Research Round-Up 2025—a curated showcase of UK creative health research with real-world relevance for health & care systems. Join us online on Wed 28 Jan | 12-2pm 🔗 ncch.org.uk/news/creativ...

📣 Applications now open: NCCH is supporting funded Creative Health Lead roles across England to embed creativity into prevention, population health & care pathways.

⏳ Deadlines: 30 Jan & 6 Mar 2026
Apply here👉 ncch.org.uk/news/ncch-an...

NCCH is recruiting a new Trustee. We’re keen to hear from people with social care experience and local authority leadership backgrounds. Deadline: 25 Jan 2026. Apply: ncch.org.uk/news/adverti... (Image from Unsplash)

🎉 Huge congratulations to Nancy Hey @worklifeyou.bsky.social on being awarded an OBE in the 2026 New Year’s Honours List. Nancy is a trustee here at NCCH and also Director of Evidence & Insight at @lr-foundation.bsky.social! Find out more: go.bsky.app/redirect?u=h... & ncch.org.uk/trustees/nan...

Reducing health inequalities needs whole-system action. Creative health can help to bring communities, the voluntary sector & health systems together. Evidence shows the arts improve wellbeing, reduce trauma & build belonging for marginalised groups. 🎨 ncch.org.uk/resources/re...

Clinicians & medical educators 📢
Join the GP SIG for Creative Health for an in-person study day exploring how art & creativity can support medical education, patient experience and clinician wellbeing.

📍 York Medical Society
📅 22 Jan 2025 | 10am–4pm

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NCCH and @rsph.bsky.social will present the Creative Health Research Round-Up 2025—a curated showcase of UK creative health research with real-world relevance for health & care systems. Join us online on Wed 28 Jan | 12-2pm 🔗 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/112681...

📬 Our January NCCH Newsletter is out now!

This month, we're showcasing
• Our Creative Health Leads in Systems Programme
• Deep dive reports and evidence based research on creative health
• blogs and resources!

👉 Read here: mailchi.mp/ncch/january...

#CreativeHealth #ArtsAndHealth

How can systems embed creative health? 🎨
NCCH’s Creative Health Leads in Systems programme supports health, care & local government to build capacity.
Join our workshop tomorrow: Tue 13 Jan | 4:30–5:30pm
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🎨Research shows that creative health can improve patient experience, reduce anxiety and support staff wellbeing. Read our blog to find out more: ncch.org.uk/blog/using-c...

Photo Fresh Arts Festival, North Bristol NHS Trust, Jim Wileman

📢 Creative Health Leads in Systems: A new NCCH programme supporting organisations to create Creative Health Lead roles!

Join our info session to hear about funding, eligibility & timelines: 📅 Tue 13 Jan | 4:30–5:30pm

🔗 Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/efc2dd...

❄️ 🧣 🧶🫖 From knitting and pottery to quilting and woodworking, creative health initiatives offer more than creativity, they can help to support mental wellbeing, reduce stress, and build community connections.

Discover more about creative health: creativehealthtoolkit.org.uk#:~:text=What...

🎉 The countdown is on for the National Activity Awards, taking place 23 January 2026 in Liverpool, celebrating the creativity, passion and dedication that make meaningful activity central to care.

For more details and how to book: 🔗 napa-activities.co.uk/napa-members...

✨ NCCH’s Creative Health Leads in Systems programme supports organisations to develop dedicated roles that embed creative health health systems. Find out more at our free info workshop: 📅 Tue 13 Jan | 4:30–5:30pm

🔗 Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/efc2dd...

NCCH wishes everyone a healthy & creative festive season! 🎶🎄

The NCCH office is now closed until 2nd January 2026 to give our staff a well-earned rest. Emails and enquiries will not be answered during this restorative time.

Great inspiration for January! 🎨 64 Million Artists are hosting a January Creativity Challenge for the month & have a pack especially for those interested in #creativehealth

Find out more >> 64millionartists.com/thejanuarych...

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NCCH is looking for a new Trustee to help guide our work embedding creative health across health and social care.

We’re keen to hear from people with social care and local authority leadership experience.

🗓 Apply by 25 Jan 2026
🔗 Details: ncch.org.uk/news/adverti...