This weeks OTalk is hosted by @Hannah_sercombe here is what she has to say.  If your new to OTalk find out here how to join in live on twitter every Tuesday 8pm  Supported by Helen.

‘Creative Health’ refers to creative approaches and activities which have benefits for our health and wellbeing. Activities may include visual and performing arts, crafts, film, literature as well as creative activities in nature; approaches may involve creative and innovative ways to approach health and care services, co-production, education and workforce development’.  

The past decade has seen an increasing interest in the role for Creative Health in promoting health, as well as in the prevention, management and treatment of illness across the life course, and its potential to mitigate some of the challenges facing the health, social care and wider systems (Warran et al., 2022, WHO, 2019). The All Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing report  “Creative Health: The arts for health and wellbeing” provides a comprehensive overview of the field, documenting over 1000 studies of the arts supporting health and wellbeing (APPG, 2017). 

Based on the belief that meaningful activity engagement is essential to human flourishing, Occupational Therapists have actively engaged with this approach since the establishment of the profession.  It has been 15 years since Lord Nigel Crisp, at the time NHS Chief Executive, stated “arts and heath are, and should be firmly recognised as being integral to health, healthcare provision and healthcare environments” (DOH, 2007). Although progress has been made, the present state of the UK’s health and wellbeing cries out for more sustainable approaches to tackling health need and inequalities, OTs have a vital role to play in meeting these challenges.  

If you are an OT who implements creativity into practice, are interested in applying Creative Health to enhance your work with people, or want to find out more about how creative health can be embedded in Occupational Therapy, please join us next Tuesday at 8pm, using the hashtag #OTalk.  

We hope this chat will inform a webinar hosted in collaboration between The Royal College of Occupational Therapists and The National Centre for Creative Health between 10-1pm 31st of October 2022. This webinar will demonstrate the profession’s role in working creatively in and with the creative sector to address people’s health and care in innovative ways, showcasing several successful examples to highlight the opportunities that exist for the OT profession in and beyond statutory (NHS and Social Care) services.  

References​

APPG 2017. Creative Health:The Arts for Health and Wellbeing In: GROUP, A. P. P. (ed.). 

DOH 2007. Departmental Report. In: HEALTH, D. O. (ed.). 

WARRAN, K., BURTON, A. & FANCOURT, D. 2022. What are the active ingredients of ‘arts in health’ activities? Development of the INgredients iN ArTs in hEalth (INNATE) Framework [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations]. Wellcome Open Research, 7. 

WHO 2019. What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being? 

POST CHAT

Host:  @Hannah_sercombe

Support on OTalk Account: Helen @HelenOTUK

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