Creative English at the ‘Creative Health in North-East London Symposium’

Last month, Anne and Martin were delighted to be invited to present about our Creative English for Health work in Barking and Dagenham at the Creative Health in North-East London Symposium to multidisciplinary stakeholders. 

It was a great event aimed at promoting Creative Health work in North-East London (NEL) and its role in reducing health inequalities.  It also sought to identify key principles for developing partnerships between health and creative health sectors.

We talked about Creative English for Health in Barking and Dagenham, where our programme targeted identified local needs, building confidence in navigating medical care and health situations in English and prompting behaviour change.  We modelled our approach to improving health literacy through games that allow participants to understand and process what is happening in the body with a race involving tubes of paper and feathers, as a way of considering respiratory health.