Tracking page for Arts and Health in West Yorkshire
We are tracking developments from the year-long alternative manifesto process (AMPlify West Yorkshire) that we hosted in 2020-21.
This page tracks Arts and Health in West Yorkshire by Jim Barwick steve Clarkson Lily Craig Holly Dannhauser Sharena Lee Satti Alison McIntyre David McQuillan Geraldine Montgomerie Hannah Robertshaw Mohammed Sattar Jeff Turner Andrew Wilson.
It records what happens in West Yorkshire relevant to this idea, and to the same idea in other places, in order to compare and contrast with our region.
Developments in West Yorkshire.
Date |
Development |
Further information |
|---|---|---|
| 10/06/23 | In Mature Company Yorkshire Dance's In Mature Company, which works with adults living with dementia in residential care, has been commissioned by Leeds NHS TRUST to use dance activity during the day to promote health and wellbeing amongst residents whilst helping to regularise the sleep-patterns of people in care homes in Leeds. Regular sleep patterns are beneficial for people with dementia and for reducing pressure on care workers on night shifts, leading to improved job satisfaction and better staff retention. This contributes to a more skilled health and care workforce better able to provide the best care, and to reduced training costs. The initiative was funded by a small, time-limited and one-off, rather than systematic, pot of money, so regardless of how successful it may prove to be, there is no clear cut mechanism to continue it. |
In Mature Company page on Yorkshire Dance website |
| 10/06/23 | Health Connections Yorkshire Dance are contributing to the Health Connections project led by Maria Maynard, Professor of Health Inequalities at Leeds Beckett University. Health Connections is a community-based diet, physical activity and healthy weight intervention for UK Black and South Asian adults. Yorkshire Dance bring their experience of different models of activity with older people and the findings of their research undertaken with the University of Leeds, around physical activity and the benefits of dance. |
More information about the Health Connections project |
| 14/12/23 | A new approach to improving health through creativity has been announced as part of a collaboration between Mayor Tracy Brabin and the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership Board. The region will become a ‘Creative Health System’, which will drive forward creative initiatives designed to make people feel happier and healthier. | Press release on West Yorkshire Combined Authority website |
Parallel developments outside West Yorkshire.
We have not yet been able to identify developments outside West Yorkshire for this idea.