Supporting healthcare professionals through challenging times
Our work provides opportunities for health professionals, artists and members of the public to share in a dialogue about the benefits that the arts can bring to health and education. Stay up to date with our programme by signing up to our mailing list.
04.08.21
We are offering a wide range of workshops and courses that will focus on subjects ranging from managing stress and presentation skills to anatomical art, all led by expert artist practitioners working across movement, voice and sculpture.
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23.03.21
Suzy Willson explains how during the pandemic it became apparent that staff in the NHS were struggling to meet the new challenges of working with unfamiliar, restrictive PPE, which led to our team transferring the skills and experience of actors to help frontline workers in the NHS.
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15.03.21
BBC Radio 4’s Inside Health programme, ran an episode which focused on communication and explored how Covid-19 has changed how doctors and nurses communicate with patients, featuring an interview with Suzy Willson.
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03.03.21
Performing Medicine’s Professor Suzy Willson, speaks to editor Rob Mair in the latest edition of Leadership Issues in Social Care about how the cultural sector has supported frontline staff during the crisis, and the importance of applying such learning across industries.
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02.02.21
NHS Confederation has published an article which showcases our most recent work in Wales, sharing the impact of the programme on the NHS staff involved in our pilot, and how it has helped staff deal with the pressures of the pandemic.
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19.01.21
Healthcare Leader magazine has published a best practice case study by Prue Thimbleby, arts in health co-ordinator at Swansea Bay University Health Board (SBUHB), on their work with Performing Medicine
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14.01.21
Performing Medicine Director, Professor Suzy Willson talks to online publication, Building Better Healthcare. In a Q&A, Suzy provides an insight into the ways that Covid-19 has accelerated collaboration between healthcare and the arts.
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22.12.20
This February, Performing Medicine will pilot a workforce development programme exploring themes around social prescribing. The programme aims to allow participants to build an understanding of how arts and culture can play a key role in healthcare and social prescribing.
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05.11.20
Performing Medicine has been awarded funding by Healthy London Partnerships (HLP), in partnership with Arts Council England and the Mayor of London, to run a pilot social prescribing programme in Southwark Council to help improve people’s mental health and wellbeing.
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04.11.20
We are thrilled to announce an open programme of Performing Medicine workshops, open to all. They will focus on a range of subjects including anatomical drawing, photography with a medical gaze, embodying confidence, non-verbal communication and self-care.
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21.10.20
Performing Medicine works with 20 freelance Associate Artists with years of experience working in healthcare and social care settings. They bring different skills and expertise to deliver creative training programmes for healthcare professionals, drawing on ideas and techniques from the performing and visual arts.
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30.03.20
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown us how profoundly connected and reliant on each other we are, to collaboratively and collectively manage this situation. Never has an appreciation of the multi-directionality of care felt more important.
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27.03.20
Director Suzy Willson identifies seven challenges to a more sustained integration of arts in health care education and offers some solutions that Performing Medicine have encountered over the years of working in these environments.
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C2, 3 Cripps Yard,
Soames Walk, Design District,
Greenwich Peninsula, SE10 0BQ
Clod Ensemble is a charity registered in England No. 1064633.
Company number 3251499 (registered charity and company name: The Clod Ensemble).
Performing Medicine is a Clod Ensemble initiative.
