Today, 19 June 2025, North East London Health and Care Partnership published St George’s Creative Health Strategy. Researched and written by Rebecca, the strategy provides a template for embedding the arts into every aspect of this innovative health and wellbeing hub. Read St George’s Creative Health Strategy here.
The strategy is organised across three strands:
Environmental Enrichment – proposes artworks and performances in the fabric of the building, providing a tangible manifestation of integrated care, linking up services and making them greater than the sum of their parts.
Clinical Pathways – draws on research evidence to suggest ways in which engagement with creativity and culture can help to tackle priority health conditions.
Healthy Living, Working and Ageing – supports the preventative focus of St George’s by encouraging the general health benefits of arts engagement for hub users, staff and volunteers.
At the launch event, Rebecca said:
Just as St George’s represents a new approach in integrated care, St George’s Creative Health Strategy represents a new approach in integrating the arts into care. As I hand the strategy over to St George’s for implementation, I sincerely hope that this opportunity to enmesh creative health into the fibres of the care model will be realised. This sits alongside Havering’s ambition to become a creative health borough and London’s ambition to become a creative health city. In becoming a creative health hub, St George’s holds the potential to be a source of inspiration locally, nationally and internationally.