this is you if: you have a role, perhaps within a network, national centre or alliance, that supports and convenes people working on arts and health projects.
Key Overall Recomendation
➔ support practitioners and the sector to make the links to big picture health strategies and priorities, and advocate for their work.
Groundwork
➔ develop schemes that offer skills and knowledge development for arts practitioners and organisations who want to work, or already work, in health settings.
➔ provide networking opportunities and events where health professionals can share their challenges and meet arts practitioners, people with lived experience and researchers to work with on that challenge.
Test
➔ develop coaching offers that help innovation partnerships to collaborate most effectively.
➔ provide resources, templates and links, particularly around funding models, evaluation and how project teams can make their work known to key audiences (e.g. policy makers).
➔ create spaces for innovators to come together to reflect on this work, and articulate its value.
Invest
➔ offer practitioner support and supervision to help the people working in this area to navigate the demands of the work.
➔ adopt a learning focus: collect and share your members’ data about key topics related to the this work (e.g. evidence and evaluation).
Scale
➔ collect and synthesise evaluations and practical learning points from a wide range of innovation projects in this space, and share them with academic researchers and funders to help them identify promising new projects and areas.