Jessica Harris Birmingham National Seminar

1. Creative Commissioning for Better Outcomes
Birmingham
17.5.16
Jessica Harris, CCP Programme Manager, NCVO
Jessica.harris@ncvo.org.uk
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2. (c) Joe Magee, commissioned by Create Gloucestershire
‘The practice of using the arts
to promote healing and
happiness is as old as the arts
themselves’
Report by RSPH Working Group on
Arts, Health and Wellbeing, 2013:
Royal Society for Public Health

3. Delivery programme
3 audiences: arts & cultural
orgs, commissioners, policy
makers
• Knowledge & skills
• Awareness
• Relationships
• Influence
• Evidence, resources, case
studies
Photo provided by Heart N Soul

4. Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art – mask-making
workshop with Lydia Meiying. Photographer: Lydia Meiying.
Randomised control trials
Silver Song Club Project - Sydney de Haan Research Centre for Arts
& Health, 2010 – 2011: York SF-12 scale showed improvements in
physical and mental health
http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/health-and-wellbeing/sidney-de-haan-research-
centre/research-projects/singing-for-older-people/silver-song-club-project.aspx
Participants’ views
Creativity Works - commissioned by Bath & North East Somerset
Council to deliver Mental Health Creative Support Service
• Participants feel able to express issues through art forms
• Peer tutors feel empowered to support their own groups
Creativity Works - Arts and co-production for better mental health outcomes
(589KB, PDF)
Cost Benefit Analysis
Artlift, Gloucestershire – study of 90 patients, 2009 – 11
• 37% reduction in GP consultations
• 38% reduction in hospital admissions
• Est reduction in cost per patient: £576 p.a.
http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/1482593/19171593/1341830741930/Simon_
Opher_cost_benefit_report_2.pdf?token=yLtOcbkP7btLE9IvxKGPEczixYM%3D
3-D approach to evidence

5. Sharing the learning
• 4 national seminars –
drawing from:
2 Commissioning Partner
pilots: Kent CC, Glos CCG;
5 Locality Projects:
Birmingham, Derby,
Manchester, Torbay, York
• Report for commissioners
• Report for arts & cultural
sector Walnut Tree GP Practice, Gloucestershire

6. National developments
The community choir in rehearsal for York Theatre Royal and Pilot
Theatre’s June 2014 production of In Fog and Falling Snow at the National
Railway Museum York . Photograph: John Saunders NRM
 DCMS - White Paper on Culture:
strengthening links between cultural
programmes and health
 All Party Parliamentary Group on arts
and health - policy recommendations
early 2017
 NHS – Four Sustainability &
Transformation Plans to develop
plans for social prescribing
 What Works Centre for Wellbeing –
synthesis of evidence of impact of
culture on wellbeing

7. What happens next
• Work with national
stakeholders -
support and policy
environment
• Secure recognition
of work and
achievements on
the ground
• Information:
www.ncvo.org/CCProg
Green Candle Dance Co: Older Men Moving Project. Photo: Green Candle Dance Co.