Arts and Health Resources
Arts and health organisations
Architects for Health
www.architectsforhealth.com
An independent membership group formed by architects to bring together individuals and organisations who share an interest in excellence in healthcare facility design.
Arts & Health South West
www.artsandhealthsouthwest.org.uk
Arts & Health South West is an organisation for everyone interested in the Arts and Health sector in the South West of England.
Arts and Healing Network
www.artheals.org
A network which celebrates the links between Arts and Healing
Arts for Health Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
www.artsforhealthcornwall.org.uk
The UK's only countywide arts and health organisation. It advocates for the role of creativity in improving health and well-being and develops and facilitates specific projects to deliver health improvement.
Arts for Health MMU
www.mmu.ac.uk/artsforhealth
An International Centre offering advice and consultancy for creative planning, funding and commissioning of arts and cultural projects in the healthcare services
CAHHM
www.dur.ac.uk/cahhm
Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health, University of Durham investigates and promotes the practical applications and benefits of arts and humanities in healthcare.
Creative Remedies
www.creative-remedies.org.uk
The arts and health website for Staffordshire and the West Midlands. It includes examples of projects, showcases good practice and offers advice and networking opportunities for artists, health professionals and others in arts and health work.
Finding Space
www.findingspace.org
FindingSpace.org has been launched to explore models of environmental development, art and architecture within psychiatric hospitals in order to inform and expand environmental development at Dykebar Hospital, Paisley.
Inside Out
www.art-architecture.co.uk
An Arts Council South East developmental project procuring deaf and disabled artists to respond to architecture and the environment.
London Arts in Health Forum
www.lahf.org.uk
London Arts in Health Forum works to promote and support arts in health activity across London and nationally. The organisation offers regular events, a monthly newsletter, training sessions and advice and support for artists, architects, clinical staff and anyone with an interest in arts in health.
Vital Arts
www.vitalarts.org.uk
Vital Arts delivers a collaborative programme of integrated arts projects for patients, staff and the wider hospital community of Barts & The London NHS Trust.
Arts & Health publications
A prospectus for arts and health
This prospectus produced jointly by the Department of Health and Arts Council England celebrates and promotes the benefits of the arts in improving everyone's wellbeing, health and healthcare, and its role in supporting those who work in and with the National Health Service. The prospectus shows that the arts can, and do, make a major contribution to key health and wider community issues.
Arts and public health
Arts and Health advocacy document from ACE North West
Creative Arts and Humanities in Healthcare
Strategic paper funded by the Nuffield Trust
Creative Remedies - Arts and Health Resources, West Midlands
An Arts and Health website developed for health professionals, artists, local authorities and arts organisations across Staffordshire and the West Midlands
Creative Routes to Health toolkit
Toolkit produced by Hi Arts, Scotland 2002
Dance and Health. The benefits for people of all ages
Arts Council document produced in partnership with the Department of Health and the DCMS. This folder outlines the health benefits of dance and provides examples of dance projects in a range of health settings.
Invest to Save: Arts in Health
The Invest to Save: Arts in Health Programme is a 3-year HM Treasury funded project aimed at strengthening the capacity of the North West Regions, Arts and Health community through networking and training opportunities and building the evidence base as to the effectiveness of creativity, culture and the arts on health and economic outcomes.
UWE Arts & Health research programme
Interdisciplinary research programme seeks to build on established research strands relating to music and visual arts, extending traditional methodologies to explore emergent issues in arts and health research » Read more
