This Social Prescribing Day, London Plus is proud to announce the launch of the Creative Health Impact Framework!

Across London, arts, cultural, and VCSE organisations are delivering activities that have a huge impact on people’s health, supporting people who experience health inequalities, and improving the lives of many across the city every day.

This new series of tools has been designed to support organisations across London to plan for, evidence, and communicate their impact to health partners in relation to inequalities and health improvement.

It is a free, open-access resource that is aimed at VCSE, arts, and cultural organisations delivering arts, creative and cultural programmes that support health and wellbeing, working with commissioners/funders.

The Creative Health Impact Framework, which was commissioned by London Plus and funded by The Greater London Authority, has been developed by Creative Health Consultant Jane Willis in collaboration with Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE), arts, cultural, and health partners from across South East London.

There is longstanding and increasing recognition that health outcomes are impacted by the wider social determinants of health and are worsening because of increasing inequalities across society (1). The recent introduction of Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) offers a valuable opportunity for cross-sector approaches to tackling inequalities and improving health outcomes.

VCSE, arts, and cultural organisations play a key role in this, collaborating with health partners to address wider social determinants of health. Creative approaches support people to live well, improve health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities.

To find out more about the Creative Health Impact Framework and to download the tools for free, visit our webpage.