We are delighted to announce that Our National Health Stories has been nominated for a Royal Society for Public Health Health & Wellbeing Award. We’re one of two nominees in the Arts & Health category! Established in 2007, the RSPH Health & Wellbeing Awards is the UK’s premier awards scheme for promoting health and wellbeing. […]
Read the Evaluation Report, commissioned by the National Arts in Hospitals Network, on the impact of this project across the NHS here.
Through their Charity Arts Programme, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have worked with Writer in Residence, Laura Lindow, and partner, New Writing North to produce some incredible pieces of writing with their staff, that encouraged them to use their own skills and ideas, whilst providing tools for writing. Staff have been able to tell their […]
As part of ONHS, Cambridge University Hospitals’ arts-in-health programme have gathered stories from staff across the Trust including at their three day CUH Arts Festival in July. Working with local writer and poet, Hannah Jane Walker, who held conversations with staff about their experiences to create stories. Illustrator Jim Butler, who spent 5 days in residence […]
What springs to mind when you think about arts in hospitals?
Join us for the culmination of Our National Health Stories on Thursday 23rd November
Tune in to BBC Radio 4 at 9pm tonight for a special programme, ‘The NHS at 75: Covid Memories’ inspired by Our National Health Stories.
Our National Health Stories is led by Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah alongside a stellar creative team
Our National Health Stories launches in the week of the 75th anniversary of the formation of the NHS. This unprecedented national programme of artistic work made by staff in hospital settings will put the words and voices of NHS staff on stage and online to mark 75 years of the NHS. Artistic Director, Kwame Kwei-Armah […]