These 24 are leading arts in health programmes. They were selected by the NHS Alliance, College of Medicine, Southbank Centre and Aesop.
Arts Organisations
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Magic Intensive Therapy – adapted magic tricks for hemiplegia, stroke or brain injury
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Breathe Magic
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Shared Reading for good mental health and wellbeing – how books build resilience and improve quality of life
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The Reader
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Art breathes ‘soul’ into a hospital building – celebrating creativity and wellbeing at Southmead Hospital, Bristol
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Willis Newson
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Improving wellbeing and creativity for people with dementia through songwriting and inter-generational engagement
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Turtle Key Arts
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Visual arts programme – early intervention to improve mental wellbeing for parents and their children
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South London Gallery
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Creative music-making to improve holistic health outcomes for stroke survivors
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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Group drumming clinically reduces depression and anxiety in mental health service users
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Royal College of Music
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Music sessions that reduce hospital readmissions and support people experiencing mental ill-health
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Raw Material
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Better health outcomes for people with learning disabilities who struggle to access talking therapies
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Magpie Dance
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Film-based resource for doctors and Muslim communities to overcome multiple barriers to mental health support
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Maslaha
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Referred mental health sufferers using dance and drawing to aid prevention and recovery
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Finding Your Compass
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Dance for Parkinson’s – a positive intervention for health, wellbeing and community cohesion
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English National Ballet
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Reducing inequalities in children’s physical activity and wellbeing through asset-based community dance
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Dance Action Zone Leeds (DAZL)
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Using film and theatre to support children to ask people to keep smoke away from them
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Creative Health
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Dance as part of an integrated recovery model in early intervention in psychosis
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Alchemy Project
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Porters’ Poems – creatively raising the profile and communication skills of hospital porters amongst hospital staff
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Breathe Porters
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Enriching the lives of young people and families receiving hospice care through the arts
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Children & the Arts