In the presence of the Australian Minster for Health, The Hon Tanya Plibersek, the one thousand delegates to the National Rural Health Conference, held in Adelaide 7-10th April 2013, endorsed a list of 17 priority recommendations including the following recommendation on the National Arts and Health Framework: 6. National Arts and Health Framework The role of community arts in health, healing and wellbeing, and communication needs advocacy and support. Conference agrees to support continuing advocacy to State and Federal ministers…
The unique three-way partnership between paediatrician Dr Angie Morrow – The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Dr George Poonkhin Khut – artist and interactive art and human centered design researcher and the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), awarded the 2012 NSW and National Arts and Health Foundation Award, has been featured in the latest edition of Qantas in flight magazine The Australian Way. BrightHearts, the project at the centre of the partnership, employs an innovative iPad app to help…
In a meeting of Federal, State and Territory Arts and Cultural Ministers, held in Tasmania on Friday 12 April 2013, the Ministers endorsed and acknowledged the value of the National Arts and Health Framework; and agreed to champion the framework with Health Ministers in their jurisdictions. Ministers agreed that Victoria and South Australia would be the lead jurisdictions to progress the Arts and Health framework. The Institute for Creative Health welcomes this news as it has been campaigning for the…
Considerable progress has been made at national, state and territory level during the past year to develop a draft policy framework for arts and health. There is an imperative now, however, to maintain that momentum in the face of shifting government policy initiatives and the upcoming Federal Election. The Framework will go before the meeting of arts and cultural ministers at the end of this week (Friday 12th April 2013) and the National Cultural Policy includes a commitment to develop…
