Creative Health Boards: A New Model for Embedding Creative Health and Community Assets in Health Systems across the UK

我们知道，参加艺术、文化和其他创造性活动对我们的健康有好处，但目前，我们不知道如何才能将其作为我们健康和护理服务的一部分。我们的项目旨在通过开发一种新的模式--‘创造性健康委员会’来解决这一问题，该模式将找到资助这些活动的新方法，将这些活动与健康和护理服务更紧密地联系起来，并向健康状况不佳风险最高的社区的人们提供这些活动。创意健康委员会将由社区资产-当地慈善机构、社区团体、博物馆和剧院-领导，并包括来自NHS、议会和私营部门的代表，共同努力提高人们对艺术、文化和创意对健康益处的认识。我们项目的目标是通过与社区资产的合作研究，确定和分享关于成功的创意健康委员会的关键要素的学习：展示如何使艺术、文化和创意活动更容易为健康状况不佳的人所接受。测试资助、交付和衡量艺术影响的新方法，由社区资产提供的文化和创意活动。建立社区资产进行自己的研究的技能和信心，并使用证据和数字技术来改进他们的工作方式。开发新的工具和指导，包括创意健康手册，使艺术、文化和创意活动可以成为整个英国医疗保健服务的关键部分。我们的项目将由领先的社区资产、学者和医疗保健服务代表组成的团队提供。我们共同拥有在社区提供艺术、文化和创造性活动的丰富经验，并与有健康不良经历的人一起开展研究。我们的目标是，到项目结束时，在英国各地建立六个新的创意健康委员会。我们将广泛分享我们的学习，以便在未来，艺术、文化和创意可以更容易地为居住在任何地方的人们所获取。我们的项目将产生以下影响：卫生和护理服务将了解创意健康委员会以及是什么使它们有效。这将帮助他们在风险最大的社区预防和解决健康不良问题。社区资产将能够使用创造性健康委员会模式，与健康和护理服务更紧密、更有效地合作。他们还将开发新的知识和技能来开展自己的研究，并利用证据和数字技术来改进他们的工作。最后，他们将获得更好的资助模式，帮助他们成长和发展他们提供的活动。健康状况不佳或健康状况不佳的个人和社区将受益于由社区资产提供的更广泛和更容易获得的艺术、文化和创意活动。从长远来看，这将为参与其中的每个人带来更好的健康和福祉。

We know that taking part in art, culture and other creative activities is good for our health but, currently, we don't know the best way to make it part of our health and care services. Our project aims to address this problem by developing a new model - the 'Creative Health Board' - that will find new ways to fund these activities, link them more closely with health and care services, and make them available to people in communities with the highest risk of poor health. Creative Health Boards will be led by community assets - local charities, community groups, museums and theatres - and involve representatives from the NHS, councils and the private sector to work collaboratively to raise awareness of the health benefits of art, culture and creativity.The objectives of our project are to identify and share learning about the key elements of a successful Creative Health Board through collaborative research with community assets that:Demonstrates how art, culture and creative activities can be made more accessible for people at most at risk of poor health.Tests new approaches to funding, delivering, and measuring the impact of art, culture and creative activities provided by community assets.Builds the skills and confidence of community assets to carry out their own research and use evidence and digital technology to improve how they work.Develops new tools and guidance, including a Creative Health Handbook, so that art, culture and creative activities can become a key part of health and care services across the UK.Our project will be delivered by a team of leading community assets, academics, and representatives of health and care services. Together, we have extensive experience of delivering art, culture and creative activities in communities and undertaking research with people with lived experience of ill-health. Our goal is, by the end of the project, to have established six new Creative Health Boards across the UK. We will share our learning widely so that in the future, arts, culture and creativity can be more easily accessed by people wherever they live.Our project will have the following impacts:Health and care services will know about Creative Health Boards and what makes them effective. This will help them to prevent and tackle ill-health in communities where the risks are greatest.Community assets will be able to use the Creative Health Board model to work more closely and effectively with health and care services. They will also develop new knowledge and skills to carry-out their own research and to use evidence and digital technology to improve their work. Finally, they will have access to better funding models that can help them grow and develop the activities they offer.Individuals and communities at risk of or experiencing poor health will benefit from having a wider and more accessible range of art, culture and creative activities provided by community assets. In the long-term this will lead to better health and wellbeing for everyone involved.