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Our National Health Stories is an Award Winner!

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Graphic card stating Royal Society for Public Health, Health and Wellbeing Awards 2024, Arts & Health Award Finalist

September 5th 2024

Our National Health Stories is nominated for a RSPH Health & Wellbeing Award

A group of performers on stage with their arms raised. An audience who are standing with their arms also raised are watching them perform

February 27th 2024

Read the Evaluation Report

Kwame Kwei-Armah, St George's Staff Choir and ONHS Live performers on stage clapping and smiling

November 24th 2023 / Live Finale

Our National Health Stories – Watch the Streams back

Graphic image with text stating Our National Health Stories Live 2023 and images of choir performing, a dancer, drummers and NHS staff photos and illustrations

November 22nd 2023 / Live

Celebrate 75 years of the NHS with performances across hospital Trusts today

Headshots of perfomers Naomi Wirthner, Robert Lonsdale, Gabrielle Brooks and Michael Shaeffer on a red/orange background

November 21st 2023 / Live Finale

Meet the Cast for the ONHS Live Finale

Montage of 5 poets from left to right: Courtney Conrad , Esme Allman, Sarah McCreadie, Maddy Accalia, Thembe Mvula

November 6th 2023 / Poetry / London

UCLH Poetry Commissions with Camden Roundhouse Poetry Collective Alumni

A person is standing in a hospital corridor wearing headphones and collecting sounds through an audio device. Two hospital workers are walking down the corridor in the background.

October 19th 2023 / Art Audio Storytelling

Audio inspired art from University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust

A blue moon with a white crescent in a blue night sky

October 16th 2023 / Newcastle

The Power of the Written Word in Newcastle

Prompt card with text stating What stories should not be left untold? With a hand written response in pen saying, The importance of taking the time to listen to patients and their families. Never underestimate the power of making someone a cup of tea, holding their hand and making them feel listened to. Kindness and caring are vital skills

October 13th 2023 / Art Storytelling / London

What stories should not be left untold?

A group of NHS staff sitting around a table creating artworks

October 12th 2023

Stories from Cambridge University Hospitals

Two people standing in front of newly painted murals. The mural depicts scenes from hospitals

September 28th 2023

Discover the history of Arts in Hospitals

Four members from an NHS Choir wearing their NHS uniforms are holding song sheets and singing

September 15th 2023

Book Free Tickets for Our National Health Stories Live at Aviva Studios, Manchester

Two people are sitting at a special cart called The Poetry Machine. Poet Beth Calverley sits in front of a vintage typewriter and is smiling at a person in an NHS blue uniform, both looking at a piece of paper

September 12th 2023 / Live

Our National Health Stories Live

A person wearing blue uniform is sitting on rolls of kitchen roll, in a room full of cleaning supplies. They are smiling at the camera

September 11th 2023 / Photography / York & Scarborough

Photographic Portraits

A person wearing a rainbow and blue lanyard and smart jacket is looking at teh camera. Behind them is a large screen. The text All kinds of bright.. appears on screen

August 10th 2023 / Poetry / Oxford

Watch ‘All Kinds of Bright’ a poem by Oxford University Hospitals

The Poet Beth Calverley sitting in front of a desk on wheels that contains a vintage typewriter smiles at another person sitting in a chair wearing a hospital uniform and holding a piece of paper

July 21st 2023 / Poetry / Somerset

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust hosts The Poetry Machine

A nurse wearing a mask with smiling eyes walking down a hospital corridor

July 4th 2023

Tune in to BBC Radio 4 tonight for a special programme inspired by Our National Health Stories

Portrait of Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah standing outside a building. He is smiling and looking at the camera in front of a blue tiled wall

July 3rd 2023

Meet the Creative Team

Two people sit at a table full of large silver bowls in a hospital. One person is holding a succulent plant ready to create a small terrarium

July 3rd 2023

Our National Health Stories launches

A close up of a person's hands holding a pen and writing on paper

July 3rd 2023 / Poetry / York & Scarborough

A poem by Stephen Lee Hodgkins