Integrating Art and Creativity into Acute Developments and Service Delivery: the art of making special places Jackie Sands Arts and Health Coordinator Health Improvement and Inequalities Team Acute Planning [email protected]
Integrating Art and Creativity into Acute Developments and Service Delivery:
the art of making special places
Jackie Sands
Arts and Health Coordinator
Health Improvement and Inequalities Team
Acute [email protected]
Art and Design?
• Art and design in the built environment: integrating permanent works into new builds and retrofits
• Creative Interventions: therapeutic arts participation in patient care, rehabilitation - community life
• Enhancing patient pathways: staff retention; visitor satisfaction and wellbeing
Funding an Arts Strategy
• fundraise externally (PFI) or ring fence (Treasury)
• aim to create an art in architecture / arts in health budget that is 1% of overall project cost
What are we doing?
New Stobhill and Victoria Ambulatory Care Hospitals • Development & implementation of Core integrated art and
architecture• exhibitions infrastructure• Waiting room in the park Stobhill Campus• Creative and performing Arts and Health Strategy Plan: New Maternity Extension South Glasgow Hospital Project• Development & implementation of Core integrated art and
architecture• Creative and performing Arts and Health programme exhibitions
infrastructure
What else?
Community and Mental Health Care Centres:
Barrhead, Drumchapel & Renfrew• Integrated art and architecture• ongoing creative and performing arts strategiesFacilitation Glasgow Arts and Health Learning
Network
How is this done ?• Establish and allow an Art ,Design & Wellbeing Sub group
to: • raise external funds to assist the projects with affordability
development, integration and maintenance of art and design components
• recruit lead artists/curators to plan and implement work alongside the project architects, in consultation with project subgroups and patient and public reference groups
• Ensure integration by requiring the Art & Design sub group chair to report to the NHS Project Executive Group and individual Project Groups
What is in place to support NHSGG&C with this
initiative? • A Glasgow Arts and Health Learning Network: membership of leading
‘arts and health’ practitioners, academics and clinicians with field experience and research interest
• A Health Board Art, Architecture and Environment strategy group
• An NHSGGC Design Action Plan (October 07) developed in response to the Scottish Government Health Department Policy that requires each NHS Scotland body appoints a Design Champion at Board level with a supporting officer to develop a Design Action Plan - now in place and agreed by the Board
• ArtFull - Arts, mental health and well- being Scottish Government and Scottish Arts Council National strategy for the promotion of arts participation in mental health and wellbeing
Jackie Sands Arts and Health Coordinator (strategy)Health Improvement and Inequalities Team Acute Planning
A Joint Funded Strategic InitiativeJune 05 – December 09
Funded by the Scottish Arts Council, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Heath Improvement and Inequalities Team,
NHS Endowments
Supported by Glasgow City CouncilJackie Sands