04/01/2005
University spearheads arts in healthcare action plan
A University of Ulster professor is spearheading an initiative to promote the use of arts in healthcare.
A 12-point action plan has been launched by the highly influential Nuffield Trust aimed at using creative arts such as painting, drama, music and dance to improve the health and wellbeing of patients and staff in hospital, doctors’ surgeries and mental health units.
The plan follows a review of the relationship between creative arts and wellbeing in working with patients, teaching of nurses and other healthcare staff and health environments.
Professor Brendan McCormack , Professor of Nursing Research at the University of Ulster - and Director of Nursing Research at the Royal Group of Hospitals in Belfast -was one of a number of people who held workshops for healthcare professionals from throughout Ireland and the UK to promote the use of creative arts.
He said: “I belong to a group which has been promoting and learning about ways to use creative arts in healthcare practice. We want to get more creative ways of thinking in both practice and research. Teaching needs an input from the creative arts and so does healthcare practice.
“We are delighted that the Nuffield Trust has come out so strongly and explicitly in favour of our thinking. The Trust is highly influential in healthcare policy and already there has been keen interest from a number of universities and other organisations on how to include creative arts in teaching and research.”
The workshops were attended by nurses, doctors, therapists, patients, carers, artists and representatives of the arts and health communities.
(MB/SP)
A 12-point action plan has been launched by the highly influential Nuffield Trust aimed at using creative arts such as painting, drama, music and dance to improve the health and wellbeing of patients and staff in hospital, doctors’ surgeries and mental health units.
The plan follows a review of the relationship between creative arts and wellbeing in working with patients, teaching of nurses and other healthcare staff and health environments.
Professor Brendan McCormack , Professor of Nursing Research at the University of Ulster - and Director of Nursing Research at the Royal Group of Hospitals in Belfast -was one of a number of people who held workshops for healthcare professionals from throughout Ireland and the UK to promote the use of creative arts.
He said: “I belong to a group which has been promoting and learning about ways to use creative arts in healthcare practice. We want to get more creative ways of thinking in both practice and research. Teaching needs an input from the creative arts and so does healthcare practice.
“We are delighted that the Nuffield Trust has come out so strongly and explicitly in favour of our thinking. The Trust is highly influential in healthcare policy and already there has been keen interest from a number of universities and other organisations on how to include creative arts in teaching and research.”
The workshops were attended by nurses, doctors, therapists, patients, carers, artists and representatives of the arts and health communities.
(MB/SP)
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