Supporting arts and health professionals
Changes expected in UK healthcare depend upon the ability of staff to be creative at work, whether they are engaged in practice, practice development, education or research.
The relationship between medicine and the arts…stimulates the insights into shared human experiences and individual differences and increases the language and thoughts of the pracitioner (McMellan, 1995)
Workforce development is a major priority for the health and care sector in creating a workforce that is equipped to deliver the highest standards and most effective practice, in the 21st Century. Government papers outline the need to provide new skills, maintain high levels of staff morale, challenge old ways of working and change ways of thinking where old methods no longer work.
Equally, the creative sector has to develop capacity and produce professionals with the right blend of skills, expertise and knowledge to work collaboratively with health and care sector partners.
The mandate to be innovative, imaginative and creative is explicit. The arts are being effectively used to not only train people to think and work creatively but also to provide creative ways of delivering training.
In this region we are aware the arts are being used to attract and retain staff via a staff arts club, train postgraduate medical students and deliver continuing professional development to GP’s, frontline health and community workers and social care staff.
Other programmes provide learning development, mentoring and shadowing opportunities for creative practitioners wishing to work in health, care and community settings.
Changes expected in UK healthcare depend upon the ability of staff to be creative at work, whether they are engaged in practice, practice development, education or research.
John Wyn Owen CBE Secretary, Nuffield Trust.
The relationship between medicine and the arts…stimulates the insights into shared human experiences and individual differences and increases the language and thoughts of the pracitioner (McMellan, 1995)
Can the arts have a positive effect on health?
Arts in health: a review of the medical literature, Dr. Rosalia Lelchuck Staricoff.
Arts in health: a review of the medical literature, Dr. Rosalia Lelchuck Staricoff.
Workforce development is a major priority for the health and care sector in creating a workforce that is equipped to deliver the highest standards and most effective practice, in the 21st Century. Government papers outline the need to provide new skills, maintain high levels of staff morale, challenge old ways of working and change ways of thinking where old methods no longer work.
Equally, the creative sector has to develop capacity and produce professionals with the right blend of skills, expertise and knowledge to work collaboratively with health and care sector partners.
The mandate to be innovative, imaginative and creative is explicit. The arts are being effectively used to not only train people to think and work creatively but also to provide creative ways of delivering training.
In this region we are aware the arts are being used to attract and retain staff via a staff arts club, train postgraduate medical students and deliver continuing professional development to GP’s, frontline health and community workers and social care staff.
Other programmes provide learning development, mentoring and shadowing opportunities for creative practitioners wishing to work in health, care and community settings.