Creatives in Place UPDATE

(Neurodiversity by Kate Genever)

A trailblazing Creative Health Pilot Programme is soon to begin in Wirksworth and Erewash…

We have been delighted (and somewhat overwhelmed!) by the response to our Call Out for applications to become one of our Creatives in Place to work on our new creative health pilot programme. Recruitment for the creatives is well underway, and we hope to be able to announce the artists who will be taking up the posts very soon!

In the meantime, we just wanted to recap on what this project is… and why we are so excited about it!

Creatives in Place (CiP) is a new creative health model that aims to support the development of innovative ways of working in primary care, with a particular emphasis on inequalities. It expands upon the skill and mindsets typically available to primary care teams and their local communities. It pushes frontline collaborative, cross-sector and cross-disciplinary working into new areas of practice, to supplement the spectrum of approaches (medical, non-medical, social, creative) available for developing neighbourhood wellbeing in a responsive and nuanced way.

As a piece of action research, CiP aims to explore whether a creative, bridging role that helps position a GP practice as a central player in local community development, can bring mutually beneficial and meaningful wellbeing benefits to patients, community and the GP practice itself.

Through creative thinking, inquisitiveness and connectedness we seek to explore how we can work towards a preventative model to stay well, happy and to flourish.

Watch this space for further updates!