The National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPG) are currently conducting a Creative Health Review to highlight the potential for creative health to help tackle pressing issues in health and social care and more widely, including health inequalities and the additional challenges we face as we recover from Covid-19.
If you know that your constituency MP is interested in this area of work, please let us know at appgahw@gmail.com.
Creative Health Review roundtable: Mental Health & Wellbeing across the Life Course
Creative Health Review roundtable: Health Inequalities
17 May 2022 Webinar on young people, coproduction, creativity & mental health
How culture and creativity can support changes to the Mental Health Act
You can watch the webinar here:
How can the arts, culture and creativity contribute to better experiences for people who come into contact with mental health services, and support the recommended changes to the Mental Health Act 1983?
The government consultation on Reforming the Mental Health Act (MHA) closed on the 21st April 2021. This roundtable discussion will explore how culture and creativity can support the four principles on which the reforms are based. They aim to place people at the centre of decisions about their own care and ensure everyone is treated equally. The principles are:
choice and autonomy - ensuring service users’ views and choices are respected
least restriction - ensuring the MHA’s powers are used in the least restrictive way
therapeutic benefit - ensuring patients are supported to get better, so they can be discharged from the MHA
the person as an individual - ensuring patients are viewed and treated as individuals
Chaired by: Ben Spencer MP, Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing
Speakers will include academics, practitioners and people with lived experience of the Mental Health Act.
APPG webinar on Care, Care Homes, Arts and Creativity
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing webinar on Care, Care Homes and the Arts and Creativity will consider how the arts and creativity can support carers and the cared for.
You can watch the webinar here:
Chair: Ben Spencer MP, Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing
Professor Martin Green, Chief Executive of Care England
Contributors:
Angela Awuah, a carer and founder of Mental Health The Arts
Dr Sara Donetto, Lecturer at the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative care, King’s College London.
Dr Alex Mermikides, Doctoral Programme Leader, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Douglas Noble, Strategic Director Wellbeing, Live Music Now
Speakers will talk from a range of perspectives about Care, Care Homes, Arts and Creativity.
Parliamentarians will respond to the presentations:
Lord Best, Officer of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Adult Social Care
Baroness Hollins of Wimbledon, Officer of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Adult Social Care
Lord Howarth of Newport, Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing
Sarah Owen, MP for Luton North, Vice-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Adult Social Care
Lord Ramsbotham
How can the arts and creativity support people who are shielding and vulnerable during Covid-19?
This first round table event for the newly inaugurated APPG was held on 16 July 2020, 2-2:45pm.
You can watch the webinar here:
Speakers discussed how the arts and creativity can support people who are shielding and vulnerable in our communities. The webinar is available on the APPG Vimeo page. A report circulated to attendees by the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance can be found here.
Chair:Tracy Brabin MP, Shadow Minister for Cultural Industries
Speakers:
Dr Ben Spencer, Member of Parliament for Runnymede and Weybridge
Baroness Young of Hornsey, member of the House of Lords Select Committee on Covid-19 and Co-Chair of the Foundation for Future London.
Dr Daisy Fancourt, Associate Professor of Psychobiology & Epidemiology, UCL, lead on the UCL Covid study
Dr Neil ChurchillOBE, NHSE Director, Experience, Participation and Equalities Group, Covid-19 Workstream Lead for Non-NHS Support for Vulnerable Individuals and Groups
Ellen Rule, Director of Transformation and Service Redesign, Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group
Cllr Julian German, Leader of Cornwall County Council and Vice-Chair of Culture, Tourism and Sport Board, LGA
Natasha Duggan, Expert Patient and Community Artist
In 2019, the APPG and Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance partnered with the Kent Surrey Sussex Academic Health Science Network on a briefing for those responsible for Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STP) /Integrated Care Systems (ICS) planning. The purpose of the briefing is to support and inspire planners to include the arts and culture in their vision for the transformation of care. You can download the briefing here
Debates and recommendations
The APPG provides a springboard for parliamentary action, such as debates and questions for oral and written answer and for making policy recommendations:
