Supporting healthcare professionals through challenging times
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Published on 04.10.23
Performing Medicine and Queen Mary University of London, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry have received support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) [AH/X010481/1] to build on our original ‘Communicating through Covid’ research project, and extend the work to the primary care community.
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Published on 02.03.22
Hospital Caterer, the official journal of the Hospital Caterers Association, has showcased one of Performing Medicine’s programmes as an example of best practice in an article titled ‘Helping your mental health'.
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Published on 09.02.22
The MJ, an online management journal for local authorities, invited Performing Medicine’s Amy Mallett to write an article on the importance of cross-sector working, and how it is key to social prescribing across communities.
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Published on 02.11.21
What are the best ways to cope with wearing PPE? What steps can I take to help refocus and re-energise? And how is Performing Medicine challenging existing mindsets around the self-care and mental health of primary care practitioners?
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Published on 28.10.21
The work of Performing Medicine has been acknowledged in an article from New Statesman. The piece covers the strain that health and social care workers have been under during the pandemic, and uses Performing Medicine's work with Swansea Bay as a case study of good practice.
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Published on 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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Published on 23.06.21
The National Association of Social Prescribing has run a summary of Performing Medicine’s pilot programme with Southwark and Merton, written by Carly Annable-Coop.
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Published on 08.06.21
Performing Medicine’s research manager, Bella Eacott was interviewed as part of a report by RAND Europe on the use and effectiveness of arts-based approaches for public engagement and research.
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Published on 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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Published on 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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Published on 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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Published on 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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Published on 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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Published on 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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Published on 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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Published on 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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Published on 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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Published on 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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Published on 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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Published on 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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Published on 18.10.19
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