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From the Report:

During the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, the development and design direction of the five Arts on Prescription (AoP) providers in Gloucestershire, who currently make up Gloucestershire Creative Health Consortium (GCHC), shifted to meet new ways of working and requirements. This paper explores some of the key aspects of how work was tailored, allowing for ongoing and greater access to the services provided, and explores outcomes over the lockdown periods from 23rd March 2020 to 19th July 2021.

The five Creative Health providers are Artlift, Art Shape, Cinderford Artspace, The Music Works and Mindsong. Between them they work with adults, older people, children and young people, covering a wide range of health conditions such as dementia, chronic lung conditions, diabetes and mental health. They offer a variety of arts-based interventions such as circus and carnival skills, music and singing, visual arts and photography, as well as the clinical intervention of Music Therapy. They are funded by a variety of income streams, however the joint Creative Health work they undertake is funded by Gloucestershire’s Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). The qualitative and quantitative data, along with anecdotes and reflections are all kindly provided either by these organisations, or individuals who took part in Arts on Prescription activities/interventions during the lockdown periods.

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