Creative health encompasses creative and cultural activities that seek to improve health and wellbeing, ranging from community-based participation and social prescribing to interventions embedded within health and care services. As investment in creative health grows, commissioners, funders, providers and government increasingly need credible evidence about whether interventions improve outcomes and represent good use of resources.
The guidelines provide a consistent methodological framework designed to improve the quality and comparability of economic evidence across the sector. They aim to support investment, adoption and scaling of creative health programmes across the UK.
These resources support commissioners to develop robust business cases and assess the value, impact and costeffectiveness of creative health interventions.
Resources include:
