Performing Medicine SPACE programme
National

Performing Medicine provides creative training programmes for healthcare professionals and students addressing staff wellbeing and mental health, compassionate care, effective communication, leadership and teamwork.

Performing Medicine’s SPACE (Social Prescribing of Arts and Culture) programme unites professionals from both health/social care and cultural sectors. An evaluation of a 2021 pilot showed that there was significant need for interprofessional training to support the growing social prescribing movement, to connect the different professional groups involved, and to facilitate access to a rich array of arts and cultural social prescribing offers.

The programme is now being rolled out across several London boroughs, supporting this complex, cross-sector workforce to develop practical skills as well as build a rich inter-professional community who understand each other’s contexts. The programme’s overall aim is to create a cross-sector network from which to build an ecosystem for creative health within a local community.

An evaluation of a 2021 pilot showed that there was significant need for interprofessional training to support the growing social prescribing movement, to connect the different professional groups involved, and to facilitate access to a rich array of arts and cultural social prescribing offers.