Join us for this regional Creative Health event focusing on singing for health, discussing the growing evidence, how to develop the grassroots infrastructure for community singing groups and exploring a regional case study.
In this session Elaine (Creative Health Associate for the Northwest) invites Loz Kaye (Director of County of Song) and Eleanor Sowerby (Wellbeing Lead - Queen Square Medical Practice) to speak about their experience of developing community choirs to improve their community’s health and wellbeing.
This event is hosted by the National Centre for Creative Health Associates Programme. This Programme, funded by Arts Council England, aims to deliver a step change in delivering creative health across England, through knowledge exchange and relationship development. There is a Creative Health Associate in each NHS England Region, hosted by an Integrated Care Board.
This event is aimed at those in the Northwest working within the creative health, NHS, Integrated Care Systems, and Local Authorities.
Accessibility
The session will be held in Microsoft Teams.
Access requirements can be noted via the eventbrite order form, but we can also assess needs on an individual basis, and would be happy to talk to you about how we can best support you including (but not limited to) any of the following:
• Sensory needs: e.g. subtitles, audio description, translation
• Learning needs: e.g. more time left in between discussions
• Social/mental health needs: e.g. particular triggers
If you have any questions prior to the event, or any specific access requirements please contact NCCH's General Manager Alexis on info@ncch.org.uk.
About the National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH)
NCCH aims to advance good practice and research, inform policy and promote collaboration, helping to foster the conditions for creative health to be integral to health and social care and wider systems. It was set up in response to Recommendation 1 in the APPG AHW report: Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing and became a registered charity in 2020.
About the Creative Health Review
The National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing Creative Health Review report offers a set of recommendations on how policy can embrace creative health. This landmark report evidences how creative health can form an integral part of a health and social care system aimed at reducing health inequalities and building social capital. https://ncch.org.uk/creative-health-review
About the Creative Health Toolkit
The National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) has worked in partnership with NHS England Personalised Care Team and Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) in Gloucestershire; Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin; Suffolk and North East Essex; and West Yorkshire, to develop this toolkit to support other ICSs to embed creative health in their systems. The toolkit considers the enablers and barriers and illustrates how systems can deliver against the forthcoming NHS England Maturity Matrix for Social Prescribing, with reference to five domains: Leadership, Strategy & Governance; Planning & Commissioning; Workforce Development; Digital & Technology; and Evidence & Impact. https://www.creativehealthtoolkit.org.uk/
