arts and health
Art attack: Getting the most out of projects
In this article we ask whether current hospital arts programmes are making the grade and focus on the potential positive impact these important design projects can have on the environment for patients, staff and visitors
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If hospitals are just pasting vacuous decorations onto walls, then they are missing an opportunity to
change society for the better. Art in hospitals could be opening minds and extending horizons.”
This hard-hitting statement from Catsou Roberts, director of Vital Arts, the charitably-funded arts and health service within Barts Health NHS Trust, is not meant to be offensive. More, it is intended to challenge the current way of thinking around arts in health projects to ensure they have maximum impact. And, according to Roberts, there is still much to be done.
Grand designs Speaking to hdm, she said: “Art in healthcare needs to be ambitious. “I feel privileged to have the opportunity to commission art for such large and diverse audiences. I see it as a way of contributing to culture in general, and to the health and wellbeing of the many patients who come through our doors.” In the past decade, the evidence
base regarding the positive impact of arts on health and wellbeing has grown exponentially.
In the last 12 months alone a number of very-important reports have been published that will help teams to very persuasively make the case for the positive impact these schemes can have on health.
These include Creative Health – drafted by the APPG for Arts, Health and Wellbeing; Changing Lives: the social impact of participation in culture and sport – by DCMS; and Public Investment, Public Gain - by the Creative Industries Federation. In addition to this, Arts Council England has named health and wellbeing as a priority in its draft strategy for the coming 10 years (2020- 2030) and has been heavily involved in the move towards social prescribing.
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