Creative Health in Systems: The People, Priorities and Challenges Shaping Integration

Creative Health in Systems offers an accessible yet engaging guide to how arts, creativity and culture can practically integrate into healthcare systems across England, demonstrating not only what is happening across the system today, but how readers can play an active role in shaping the next phase of Creative Health integration.Across 54 short chapters, the book brings together health leaders, creative practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and lived experience voices to comprehensively map how Creative Health is unfolding.It explores the diverse stakeholders and networks involved in these processes, examining how they work together to improve health outcomes.Readers are guided through the key strategic touchpoints where Creative Health is gaining traction, including public health, population health management, neighbourhood healthcare, mental health, hospital admissions, staff wellbeing and retention, children and young people, and creative ageing.The book also confronts the fiel