The Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance‘s first annual conference, Cultures of Health and Wellbeing was held at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums in Newcastle on the 21st and 22nd March 2019. I was one of the 250 people attending and as a doctor was in the minority. The conference explored the challenges and opportunities …
Impression, soleil levant Claude Monet 1872 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris Image in the public domain Monet’s painting of sunrise reminds us of the potential each new day brings; dawn awakens all our senses. This particular painting tells another special story. It was first exhibited in Paris in 1874. At the last-minute Monet is believed to have …
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‘What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.’ Little Gidding, The Four Quartets T. S. Eliot The last decade has seen the closure of hundreds of public libraries and the withdrawal of funding from arts projects. …
2018 has been an exciting year; the NHS has officially recognised the potential benefit of using the Arts for Health and Wellbeing and the first GP Training Leadership Fellow in the Creative Arts for Health and Wellbeing has been granted funding. On a personal front it has been very satisfying to launch my website and …
It’s Christmas time. Time to be at home, time to be with family and friends, and hopefully time to be thoughtful about the lives of others. It’s a good time to publish two new resource collections on ‘home’ and ‘the lives of others’. Low calorie food for thought! Happy Christmas!
On Monday two GP Trainees and I visited the amazing Dragon Café at St George’s Church, Borough, London. We experienced first hand the power of the arts to benefit the health and wellbeing of a local community. The Dragon Café is the flagship project of the Mental Fight Club. It is open to all every Monday …
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Health Education Yorkshire and Humber Future Leaders Programme (2019 Recruitment) The Future Leaders Programme offers opportunities for Health Education England Yorkshire and the Humber medical and dental trainees to do a one year “out of programme experience” (OOPE) Clinical Leadership Fellowship to help grow and develop their personal leadership skills. Applications for the 2019-20 Future Leaders Programme, will open …
Leadership Fellow for Arts for Health and Wellbeing in Primary Care Read More »
It’s great to read that the new Health and Social Care Secretary recognises and supports the work being done to harness the power of the arts to improve health and wellbeing. Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock speaks to the King’s Fund about the benefits of social prescribing. His speech discusses “The power of …
I launched my website after attending a great day of teaching with ‘Pootle Press’. (thanks Jamie) The first collection of creative arts resources (resilience) is now complete. I like to think visually and my resilience is boosted by surrounding myself with positive images. I am particularly inspired by this photo of an amazing sculpture by Paige Bradley. …
