{"id":16247,"date":"2017-07-28T17:31:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=16247"},"modified":"2017-07-28T17:31:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:31:34","slug":"all-party-parliamentary-inquiry-into-arts-health-and-wellbeing-launches-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=16247","title":{"rendered":"All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Arts, Health and Wellbeing launches report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/APPG_CreativeHealthReport_July2017.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16248\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/APPG_CreativeHealthReport_July2017-213x300.png\" alt=\"APPG Creative Health Report July 2017\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>A new report &#8211; <em>\u2018Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing\u2019<\/em> &#8211; has been launched showing that the arts have a significant and positive impact on health and wellbeing.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing\u2019<\/em> comes as the result of an inquiry led by the\u00a0All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPGAHW). The research was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, and Paul Hamlyn Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Three key findings of the report include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The arts can help keep us well, aid our recovery and support longer lives better lived.<\/li>\n<li>The arts can help meet major challenges facing health and social care: ageing, long-term conditions, loneliness and mental health.<\/li>\n<li>The arts can help save money in the health service and in social care.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Arriving shortly after\u00a0AHRC has just announced its \u00a32.2m funding\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahrc.ac.uk\/newsevents\/news\/2-2m-awarded-to-tackle-anti-microbial-resistance\/\">awards for tackling Anti-microbial Resistance<\/a>, and\u00a0announcments on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esrc.ac.uk\/news-events-and-publications\/news\/news-items\/dementia-prevention-researchers-identify-nine-health-and-lifestyle-factors\/\">ESRC-funded Lancet report on Dementia<\/a>\u00a0prevention, intervention, and care, the evidence for the need of arts and humanities in health and social care has never been clearer.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rt Hon. Lord Howarth of Newport, Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing said, \u2018The time has come to recognise the powerful contribution the arts can make to our health and wellbeing.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Launched at the House of Commons, presents the findings of nearly two years of research alongside roundtables and discussions with service users, health and social care professionals, artists and arts organisations, academics, policy makers and parliamentarians from all parties and both Houses in the most comprehensive overview of the field to date.<\/p>\n<p>Research featuring in the report was conducted at King&#8217;s College London, Guy\u2019s and St Thomas\u2019 Charity, National Alliance for Arts Health and Wellbeing, The Royal Society for Public Health, and Arts Council England.<\/p>\n<p>The report makes recommendations to Ministers, officials and a broad range of groups involved in both the arts and healthcare delivery, research, and practice to better understand the role of the arts in providing real-world solutions to the many challenges faced by today\u2019s heath, wellbeing and social care services.<\/p>\n<p>The report makes 10 recommendations, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The establishment of a national strategic centre for arts, health, and wellbeing<\/li>\n<li>The development of a cross-governmental strategy to support the delivery of health and wellbeing through the arts and culture<\/li>\n<li>Appoint designated individuals to be responsible for arts, health and wellbeing within NHS England, Public Health England and each clinical commissioning group, NHS trust, local authority and health and wellbeing board<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lord Howarth also said: \u2018We have been privileged to hear moving personal testimonies from individuals who have experienced remarkable improvements in their own health and wellbeing from engagement with the arts. This report sets out comprehensive evidence and numerous examples of practice which demonstrate the beneficial impact of the arts. However, we have also found that engagement of the arts in health and social care is unevenly spread and occurs little if at all in many places. We are calling for an informed and open-minded willingness to accept that the arts can make a significant contribution to addressing a number of the pressing issues faced by our health and social care systems.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahrc.ac.uk\/newsevents\/news\/all-party-parliamentary-inquiry-into-arts-health-and-wellbeing-launches-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report &#8211; \u2018Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing\u2019 &#8211; has been launched showing that the arts have a significant and positive impact on health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16249,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16247\/revisions\/16249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}