SHU 0477 - CHD - a guide to getting started

Creative Health Boards: A guide to getting started

The Challenge

The Solution

The 'How?'

Align with Policy

Integrate Creative Health Boards strategy with local and regional health priorities to scale efforts and improve reach and engagement. Establish a shared direction, enabling collective impact and ensuring efforts move forward with clarity and momentum.

Summary Points:

• Drive collective impact and progress.
• Ensure clarity and shared direction.

Centre Lived Experience

Include the voices of creative health participants in all decisions for real-world accountability. By keeping lived experience the centre, Creative Health Boards can remain grounded and accountable to the communities they serve

Summary Points:

• Creative health participants' voices anchor decisions.
• Listening builds trust and relevance.
• Accountability grows through shared experience.

Invest Time in Relationships

Relationships are both the foundation and the outcome of strong Creative Health Boards. Trust is the invisible force that binds and strengthens relationships. It develops steadily over time, becoming reliable and unshakable.

Summary Points:

• Trust builds gradually.
• Strong relationships form the base of trust.

Ensure Accountability

Define responsibility for decisions, interventions and outcomes to address local health needs and harness local creative and heritage assets. Keep responsibilities and outcomes in focus.

Summary Points:

• Accountability makes effort visible.
• Keep systems balanced and fair.
• Transparency strengthens trust.

Knowledge Spreads

Create and share robust, accessible and evaluative evidence about the impact of Creative Health Boards for long-term implementation. Shared knowledge leaves a visible, lasting legacy that guides future progress.

Summary Points:

• Knowledge spreads.
• Shared learning shapes lasting impact.
• Insight guides future direction.

Develop the Workforce

Ensure artists, staff and volunteers are skilled, trained, and supported to deliver and embed provision effectively. Growth, training, and support enable staff and volunteers to harness their skills and launch to their full potential.

Summary Points:

• Growth and training fuel confidence.
• Support helps skills take flight.
• A strong workforce powers progress.

Start with Why

Secure senior leadership buy-in to unlock resources and embed creative health in wider health strategies. Strong leadership unlocks resources and illuminates the path ahead, guiding all that follows.

Summary Points:

• Leadership sets the direction.
• Unlock resources and support.
• Clarity of purpose.