arts and health heather eardley national projects director
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Arts and Health
Heather Eardley National Projects Director
The Patients Association
• Long established independent charity• The only major non-disease specific patient
orientated campaigning group• Campaigning on patients and carers issues
raised at our national helpline• Expanding to work locally with Trusts on
projects to improve patient experience• Use of patient stories, feedback and reports
“Listening to Patients,Speaking up for change”
Arts & Health
The Arts represent new ways to “listen to patients” and portray their views in a powerful way and often with greater impact .
Case Study: NHS North West
Creative ways to find and present patients views to commissioners:
• Community Reporting• Use of other arts –Arthur and Martha
Patience: an insider's guide to surviving ill-health
Benefits of Arts for Health
• Environment – real benefits– Surgeries/hospitals more welcoming – Communicate keys messages
• Involving People – Boosts confidence and self esteem– Less stress
• Bringing communities together • Therapeutic value
“Much ill health can be attributed to social factors of isolation, loneliness, poverty, poor environment, unemployment and lack of community – art can reach the parts that conventional medicine cannot”
Dr Malcolm Rigler GP Weston super Mare
Community Reporting
Arthur and Martha
Source: www.arthur-and-martha.co.uk
Working with people with dementia
A group poem from Arthur + Martha
health?depends where you’re born- how green the air is
luck?the part of the brain that died
and wont regenerateyou either fall off the dustbin that way
or notif you don’t laugh you’ll cry
if you cry you might as well die
“Creative Ageing”
• A main theme at international conferences• An alternative way to engage with people with
dementia• Arthur + Martha work• Local projects in Dorset• Manchester University
“Community Arts & Health”
A lively supportive community is likely to create and sustain healthy individuals
• “Pub is a hub”• Library information projects• Patient and public
engagement• Promoting well-being as well
as addressing ill health
Education & Information
Patients, carers and health and social care professionals:
• Through drama, film, creative writing, visual
• Compass Project, Peninsula Medical School- humanities in medics training
• Shared decision making and co-production
• Making an impact
Unheard . . .
• Hearing the unheard is one of the biggest challenges in health and social care
• Conventional techniques are not enough• The Patients Association recognises the
potential of the arts in reaching unheard groups of people
• Possible collaboration with artists to hear people’s views and improve patient experience
Community Reporting video (once finalised etc. the version needs to be saved on the computer that will be playing this presentation and inserted into this slide)
Thank you
Heather EardleyNational Projects Director
www.patients-association.com