National Alliance for Arts Health and Wellbeing

Launched in autumn 2012, Tthe National Alliance for Arts Health and Wellbeing provides a range of resources and examples showing the ways that creative activity can benefit the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Their Research Database allows you to search for a range of evidence under the following main categories:

• Research
• Guidelines
• Education
• Policy

The National Alliance aims to provide a clear and focused voice to articulate the role creativity can play in health and wellbeing. Over the past forty years, a huge range of arts and health work has developed in the UK, the National Alliance will seek to represent this work, to advocate on its behalf, to encourage the use of the arts by health and social care providers and to raise standards in this sector - the London Arts in Health Forum is supporting the work of the National Alliance.