The National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) has announced its new Creative Health Associates programme. Funded by Arts Council England, the programme will see a Creative Health Associate employed in each NHS region across England, who will work with doctors, nurses and other healthcare practitioners to embed creative approaches and activities in health and care systems across England.
The £600,000 investment in the programme is the Arts Council’s largest grant to a creative health project, and will make a significant contribution to achieving the aims of the organisation’s Creative Health and Wellbeing Plan. The programme will support the NCCH’s ambition to foster the conditions for creative health to be an integral part of health. It will also demonstrate the power of creativity and culture and its ability to benefit the lives of individuals and communities.