JERSEY’S ARTS IN HEALTH CARE TRUST


On 3rd February 1995, over twenty-three years ago, the Health Department had the foresight to introduce Arts in Health Care Trust for the benefit of vulnerable groups.


By Dr Mike Rosser (Retired GP)


The Trust offered the benefits of the arts in a variety of health settings in the community including hospitals, nursing homes, residential homes, day-care homes, prisons and special schools within the Health Service. It took a holistic approach to healing and wellbeing.


During those years the team members, who came from a variety of backgrounds, worked hard for this registered charitable trust, giving their expertise and professional time. Recently I was added to the list and can only admire the dedication and professionalism that this group commits to this aspect of health. Members include a lawyer, an accountant, an occupational therapist, an arts teacher, a music therapist, the director of the Arts Centre and a doctor. Unfortunately, our honorary chairperson, Advocate Graham Boxall, who is both a lawyer, a cellist and a chess player, recently announced that he was vacating his seat, but all the team is outstanding in all their various fields. They will press ahead with the trust’s work, the importance of which was highlighted by the 2017


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All-Party Parliamentary Group Inquiry on Arts in Health and Wellbeing. This found that the arts can help keep us well, aid recovery and support better quality lives.


Ageing, long term conditions, loneliness and mental health are the targets. Recent research activity in the general area of music, health and wellbeing demonstrates that music plays a vital role in this process. Sceptics will ask is there any objective evidence of this. My research, which surprised me, found that there is.


For example, an article in Lancet Neurology 2017 (16:648-60) on music-based interventions in neurological rehabilitation is an excellent paper looking at how much has been done to assess the clinical benefits in a wide and diverse range of medical conditions. Its conclusions are amazing, as are many other papers such as Music in Heart Health by Julie Corliss published in June 2018 from Harvard Medical School, the Oxford University research paper Choir-Singing improves Health by Jacques Launay, and Music Health and Wellbeing by Raymond MacDonald in


Rod Mcloughlin (Our new Chairperson)


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