📌ICYMI: Developed with @ncch.bsky.social, this report takes a closer look at how creative health has been embedded within Gloucestershire’s Integrated Care System—one of the most established examples in England. Read the report here - ncch.org.uk/uploads/Embe...

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NCCH & @mobcommassets.bsky.social report shares how Gloucestershire's ICB has embedded creative health across its system. The report shows that system change begins with early champions who hold both vision and influence. Read here: ncch.org.uk/uploads/Embe... Photo credit: Leylan Ozkan

MUST READ: Delighted to share our new article on tackling neighbourhood health inequalities through cross-sector collaboration & community engagement. Findings from 27 projects & 12k+ participants highlight trust, intersectionality & community-led approaches. 🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fpub...

Frontiers | Tackling neighborhood health inequalities in the UK through cross-sector collaborations and community engagement: thematic synthesis of focus group and questionnaire data

BackgroundCommunity engagement has become an increasingly common approach to addressing health inequalities. A three-phase UK-wide interdisciplinary, multice...

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💭Can simplifying language for inclusion sometimes have the opposite effect? In a new blog, Danny Sherwood explores how assumptions about what people can engage with may limit participation and why people with lived experience should decide themselves what they understand tinyurl.com/mrxrramx

ICYMI: The MCA programme, @ncch.bsky.social, @ucl.ac.uk & their partners hosted an insightful webinar showcasing 4 presentations that each made a case for the increasingly urgent need to build an economic case for creative health. Tune into the recording on our website ncch.org.uk/news/creativ...

❗MUST READ: A new study from the @mobcommassets.bsky.social programme and the NCCH has been published in Frontiers of Public Health. It proposes an approach to social prescribing based on data from seven Mobilising projects. Read the full study here: doi.org/10.3389/fpub...

Frontiers | The role of community assets in tackling UK health inequalities through community engagement and partnerships in social prescribing

IntroductionWith policy focused on prevention and re-location of care into communities to reduce the burden on acute services, the need for robust evidence f...

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📣𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 🗓️ 𝟮𝟳 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 | 𝟭𝟭:𝟬𝟬–𝟭𝟮:𝟯𝟬𝗽𝗺 Join this @mobcommassets.bsky.social, @ucl.ac.uk, @ncch.bsky.social 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 with @celfcymruartswales.bsky.social, @bangoruniversity.bsky.social & Edge Hill University! Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-t...

🗓️ Join us on Friday 27 March at 11:00 GMT for an MCA webinar focusing on the economics of creative health, hosted in collaboration with @ncch.bsky.social, @celfcymruartswales.bsky.social, @bangoruniversity.bsky.social & Edge Hill University. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/building-t...

Building the Economic Business Case for Creative Health - an MCA webinar

Join us in March for a Mobilising Community Assets webinar focusing on the economics of creative health.

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🚨 Britain’s ketamine crisis is growing. New research from Blackpool shows why creative, community-based approaches should be part of the response, supporting prevention, and recovery. Read more ⤵️ ncch.org.uk/blog/britain... @mobcommassets.bsky.social Image © UCL / Creative Commons

📣 “A call to act now”: New research from Blackpool argues for a creative community-based approach to the growing crisis of ketamine use across Britain. Find out more in this blog ➡️ ncch.org.uk/blog/britain...

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The National Centre for Creative Health will advance good practice and research, inform policy and promote collaboration, helping foster the conditions for creative health to be integral to health and...

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📘 How can creative health 🎨🎵🎤🎭🍃🧶 become part of everyday healthcare? NCCH & @mobcommassets.bsky.social's report looks at the case of Gloucestershire with positive lessons on leadership, partnership, testing ideas, data and funding. Read it here: ncch.org.uk/uploads/Embe... 📷 Credit, Leyla Ozkan

The Mobilising programme, w/ @ncch.bsky.social @coastalcch.bsky.social and Blackpool Researching Together, is proud to launch a participatory research study investigating the surge of ketamine use - and Blackpool’s powerful approach to tackle it ➡️ ncch.org.uk/uploads/Blac...

📣📣We’re proud & excited to announce the publication of our deep dive report, in collaboration with @ncch.bsky.social and NHS Gloucestershire. A brilliant exploration of how Gloucestershire ICB is embedding #creativehealth across its system. Read (& share widely!) here➡️ ncch.org.uk/blog/embeddi...

National Centre for Creative Health

The National Centre for Creative Health will advance good practice and research, inform policy and promote collaboration, helping foster the conditions for creative health to be integral to health and...

ncch.org.uk

New NCCH & @mobcommassets.bsky.social report shares how Gloucestershire ICB has embedded Creative Health across its system, as part of the UKRI-funded Mobilising Community Assets programme. Read the report: ncch.org.uk/blog/embeddi... Photo credit: Leylan Ozkan

In September 2025, MobCommAssets & TheNCCH, in association with Prof. Vicky Karkou and @artswellehu.bsky.social, held a webinar about the role of creative health associates. Head over to our website for more information & a recording of the event => ncch.org.uk/news/the-rol...

Listen to 2 of our Co I's, David Moss & Teresa Salami-Oru speak at the APPG on Creative Health – Neighbourhood Health and Creative Health Roundtable held earlier this week youtu.be/ndrW1r3mnVY @lucyselman.bsky.social @mobcommassets.bsky.social @bnssgresearch.bsky.social @eastsussexcc.bsky.social

APPG on Creative Health - Neighbourhood Health and Creative Health Roundtable

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📢 NCCH will be joining the MCA Team mobcommassets.bsky.social on 11 Dec for a webinar on how Creative Health has been embedded in Gloucestershire’s ICS — one of England’s most developed examples of system-wide creative health integration. Register 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/embedding-...

From the vault: The Mobilising programme held a Creative and Participatory Methods knowledge exchange workshop in March 2025. Head over to our blog for more insights on all things creative & participatory methods => ncch.org.uk/blog/knowled...

ICYMI: Art4Us celebrated a year of achievements earlier this summer at an event held at Edge Hill University which gathered young people, academics and project partners. Catch up on the event on our blog ncch.org.uk/blog/mca-art...

NCCH is delighted to be joining the MCA Team @mobcommassets.bsky.social on 13 Nov, 2- 3.30pm, for a webinar looking at the programme’s relevance & foresight in relation to the Government’s 10 Year Health plan & within the ever-evolving landscape of the healthcare system.Join us tinyurl.com/3y458mdv

Committed to bringing about lasting systemic change in mental health and empowering local communities, The Abundance Project has developed a Theory of Change to ‘offer a counter-narrative: one that insists abundance is possible’. Find out more here ➡️ ncch.org.uk/blog/chartin...

ICYMI: Read this thorough overview of the MCA’s workshop on creative planetary health in association with Dr Zoe Moula and Arts4Us, addressing the fundamental need for a creative health approach to ‘tackle the environmental, commercial and social determinants of health’. ncch.org.uk/blog/mca-cre...

Creative Health-our latest Blackpool Discussion Forum included a great rendition of Hey Jude & an opportunity to hear about the work of Blackpool's diverse & talented community organisations coastalcch.bristol.ac.uk/news/ @lucyselman.bsky.social @mobcommassets.bsky.social @capcbristol.bsky.social

Watch our live scribe video by Liam Calllebout from our Weston-super-Mare community meeting last month. Plenty of discussion as you can see! @lucyselman.bsky.social @mobcommassets.bsky.social

New @mobcommassets.bsky.social Blog - Overview of the Abundance Project’s Theory of Change, connecting lived experience with theory & practice to cultivate equitable systemic change in mental health ncch.org.uk/blog/chartin... Part of the MCA @ukri.org funded Programme, in p'ship w/ UCL & NCCH.

Spearheading an urgent investigation into the growing misuse of ketamine, Mobilising Community Assets & NCCH - along with Coastal Communities & Blackpool Researching Together - make a case for a ‘coordinated, multi-sector response’ to this increasingly devastating issue. ncch.org.uk/blog/ketamin...

Evaluating Programmes & Creative Engagement Initiatives. Register for our Collaborative workshop exploring methods for evaluating creative engagement initiatives and participatory methods for evaluating programmes www.eventbrite.com/e/evaluating... @lucyselman.bsky.social @mobcommassets.bsky.social

A new report, which features Mobilising projects, published by the Creative Industries Council & Arts Council England highlights how creativity is improving the nation’s health & wellbeing - and saving the NHS money. www.thecreativeindustries.co.uk/download-hub/health-wellbeing-forum-report

CIC Health & Wellbeing Forum 2025 Report - Download Hub: The Creative Industries

A cross sector group of experts advises greater use of innovative creative health approaches to help the UK meet long-term challenges. Download now in the Download Hub.

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Interested in the connection between human health & planetary health? ncch.org.uk/blog/mca-cre.... A knowledge exchange event foregrounding Phase 3 @mobcommassets.bsky.social (MCA) projects’ took place in Spring 2025, MCA's Blog explores this event's key Q's around Creative Planetary Health.

Join our online capacity building workshop, "Co-creating Services: Stakeholder Engagement from Design to Evaluation", Tue 16 Sep 1-3pm. Free registration here: lnkd.in/eTqe3Zth @lucyselman.bsky.social @mobcommassets.bsky.social

Creative Health Associates: The role of Creative Health Connectors 10 Sept 2025, 10:30am - 12pm, online. Join us as we will present at a forthcoming @mobcommassets.bsky.social webinar exploring job roles that connect health systems with creative health Register www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-h...