NATIONAL ARTS IN HEALTH

CONFERENCE AND SHOWCASE

Thursday 19 April 2018

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FORM for

ARTS ORGANISATIONS working in HEALTH

Event overview

The Conference and Showcase is an Aesop collaboration with the College of Medicine and Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

The main target audience is health professionals. The aim is to inspire them about the power of the arts to improve the lives of patients and health professionals, and to galvanise and equip them to work with artists and arts organisations.

The day will showcaseabout 25 arts in health programmes. We have consulted the health sector about current priorities and, with their help, 5priority themes have been chosen:

  1. Reducing demands on the health system, for example:

Social prescribing

Reduce caseload and pressure on frontline health professionals

More resilient and empowered patients and communities

Achieving health savings

Greater emphasis on prevention

Health as a social movement

  1. Addressing the neglect of mental health
  2. Ageing population
  3. Addressing health inequalities
  4. Expressing the experience of ill health and of the health system

Health professionals who attend will receive a certificate saying the day contributes to their year’s allocation of 50 hours of education.

Showcase format and content

There is 30 minutes for each arts in health programme – time for it to be presented and discussed with the audience. It must include a beneficiary/patient perspective and cover the programme’s evidence base, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness.

Selection process

Selection will be made by Dr Michael Dixon (College of Medicine Chairman), Professor Helena Gaunt (Guildhall School of Music & Drama Vice Principal and Director of Guildhall Innovation) and Tim Joss (Aesop founder and Chief Executive).

The selection criteria are:

  1. Relevance to the five priority themes.
  2. Artistic quality.
  3. Potential for increased take-up by the health system.

Shortlisted programmes will be asked to provide two expert referees, one from the arts and the other from health.

Ongoing promotion of selected arts in health programmes

Aesop launched the Aesop Marketplace at the 2016 event. It is a website ( which operates like an online dating site, matching health decision-makers with relevant arts in health programmes in an attractive and time-efficient way. The site currently promotes the first showcase’s 24 programmes and will be updated for the April 2018 event. Additional opportunities for the 24 have included a recent Philanthropy Impact/Aesop arts in health seminar for philanthropists and wealth managers.

Expression of interest form

Please complete the form below and email it by Thursday 30th November 2017 to Aesop’s Head of Public Engagement & Communications, Gemma Goddon ().

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FORM

Please complete this form and email it by Thursday 30th November 2017 to Aesop’s Head of Public Engagement & Communications, Gemma Goddon ().

Contact details

Name of organisation
Web address
Name of contact
Job title
Contact email
Contact phone number

Proposed contribution to the showcase – your presentation

Title of presentation
Under which of the 5 priority theme(s)? See list at the foot of page 1.
Description of content / 200 words max.
Contributors:
Please provide name, organisation, and relationship with your organisation where relevant
  • Host/lead

  • Presenter(s)

  • Patient advocate(s)

  • Health advocate

  • Cost effectiveness advocate
/ This can be the same as the health advocate
Technical requirements
Travel expenses (requested contribution)

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