Annual Report for NHS Forth Valley
Participatory Arts in Health 2013-14
Artlink Central Arts Annual Report for NHS Forth Valley 2013-2014
Service Level Agreement 2013-14 marked the first year of Artlink Centrals three-year Service level Agreement with NHS Forth Valley, supporting our participatory arts practice in healthcare settings across the region, after over twenty years of delivery of Endowments supported arts activity within NHS Forth Valley for benefit of patient experience and environment. This Service Level Agreement is the first of its kind in the UK with other Scottish health boards following suite. The collaboration between Artlink Central and NHS Forth Valley was nominated as a ‘Perfect Partnership’ and shortlisted as finalist for a Scottish Charity Award. Artlink Central delivers participatory arts programmes with the following programme outcomes: 1
a) b) c) d) e) f) g)
to improve health and wellbeing; to improve quality of life; to increase inclusion; to increase choice and control; to help reduce health inequalities; to help reduce use of mental health services; to help reduce the stigma of mental illness.
2. Strengthening and improving arts and health practice in Forth Valley through creative collaborations that set out to increase individual participants’ sense of autonomy and self, in a meaningful and enjoyable way. 3. The design of participatory arts and cultural projects in conjunction with NHSFV clinical, managerial and/or Allied Health Professional staff and, if appropriate, community stakeholders and other voluntary sector partners, for delivery with client groups. 4. Develop NHSFV’s social assets by building in discreet or overt opportunities for staff, volunteers or community stakeholders to increase their skills, professional, career or their community’s development, and that recognise and make use of staff, volunteers’ and community stakeholders’ skills, interests and objectives as active participants in projects with members of client groups. 4. The consideration with each project, programme or groups of projects, of the viability, value and utility of a public output in the form of an exhibition or display, art event, performance, broadcast or publication. 6. In addition to considering projects’ direct impact on participants, to then projects according to their sustainability, relevance and aesthetic value.
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Artlink Central Arts Annual Report for NHS Forth Valley 2013-2014
Accountability and Service Level Agreement Reporting Structure Artlink Central’s services are funded by NHS Forth Valley Endowments with an annual report and presentation to the Endowments Committee, who annually review the funding for the three-year service level agreement and future agreements. Artlink Central’s programme of services are agreed with three key managers: Gillian Morton (Associate Nurse Director, Head of Midwifery, General Manager of Women, Children and Sexual Health Services), Kathy O’Neill (General Manager Community Health Partnerships), and Lorna Henry (Service Manager Specialty Medicine). Monitoring Arrangements Monitoring Officer – Charitable Arts and Wellbeing Coordinator –Babs McCool The Service Level Agreement is monitoring bi-annually. Artlink Central supports the NHS Forth Valley Arts and Wellbeing Strategy through involvement on the Arts and Wellbeing Steering Group. Some joint work and fundraising activity takes place with the Charitable Arts and Wellbeing Officer to support the programme and Strategy. Strategic Context The strategic framework within which Artlink Central’s programme operates is: • The NHSFV Integrated Healthcare Strategy • The NHSFV Arts and Wellbeing Strategy and • Mental Health Strategy For Scotland 2012-2015 ; • Adult Health and Social Care in Scotland Bill • Scotland’s Patient Experience Programme; Building on Children and Young People’s Experiences; • The Keys to Life – Improving Quality of Life for People with Learning Disabilities. Specific objectives are set around the delivery of the Integrated Healthcare Strategy and the Arts and Wellbeing Strategy. (see reporting) Client Groups Serviced
a) b) c) d) e)
People experiencing mental health issues; Older people, including those with dementia; People with learning disabilities; Children and young people in acute settings; Other groups in acute or long
term
healthcare
settings
Key performance indicators (for all client groups – additional for specific groups) a) self-expression b) enhanced sense of value and attainment c) pride in achievement d) maintaining and/or developing skills e) team working or autonomy f) enhancing their immediate environment and their experience of healthcare
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Project Name
25th Anniversary Events
Participant Groups
All Client Groups
Location
Forth Valley College, Scottish Parliament
Geographical
Stirling, Edinburgh
Project Summary
With the support of MSP for Stirling, Bruce Crawford, Artlink Central were able to take their message to the Scottish Parliament in a week when the Cross Party Group on Culture were aptly meeting to discuss a topic central to Artlink’s work- ‘Intrinsic right or expendable luxury?: the challenges and opportunities in securing cultural funding’ – and whether local authorities properly recognise the value of culture not just to the economy but to welfare reform and the health of the people of Scotland.
Partners
With an exhibition and live arts performance which toured the Forth Valley Royal Hospital atrium and Scottish Parliament itself, this project built on our Year of Creative Scotland 2012 First in a Lifetime participatory live arts programme which used the hospital as a site to create contemporary live arts practice with adults with learning disabilities. The performance transformed the atrium into a temporary performance space creating an uplifting and inclusive public environment. Alex Rigg, Claire Docherty, Guy Veale, Lauren Bremner, William Sinclair, Gregor Gillespie & Abrupt Encounters BBC Performing Arts Fund, Forth Valley College, Scottish Parliament
No of Participants
15
Artists
No. of Sessions
2
No. of Attendances
25
Audience Key Performance Indicators NHS INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE STRATEGY
350 Help address the challenges faced by the most deprived and vulnerable in communities across Forth Valley; provide examples of good practice; improve patients and service user’s experience.
NHS ARTS AND WELLBEING STRATEGY
Support the aims and objectives of the arts strategy; contribute to the national arts and health agenda in partnership with NHSFV; include creative work by patients and service users in public exhibitions and events; 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 2, 5, 6 100% who engaged in the project expressed that it afforded the opportunity for: self-expression; an enhanced sense of value and attainment; maintaining and/or developing skills; team working or autonomy; enhancing the immediate environment; enhancing their experience of healthcare or health services.
SLA Programme Outcomes Impact on Patients
Impact on clinical/healthcare/community environment
Performance in the atrium of FVRH impacted on the physical environment and public spaces of the hospital, improving patient and public experience of NHS FV; Events strengthened public and sector awareness of partnership with NHS FV and positioned NHS FV as leader in this field.
Impact on Staff /Volunteers/Partners
Increased inclusion as non-disabled people participated as equals with disabled people in the Scottish Parliament programme
Outcomes against Service Level Agreement Organisational learning
High quality production and exhibition of work with direct testimony from beneficiaries, with strong focus on partnership and service level agreement with NHS Forth Valley Artlink Central should explore future opportunities to recognise the strong partnership it has with NHS FV as leading the field of Arts and Health nationally in Scotland
Awards/Legacy/Development Plans 2014-16
Applications made in 2014-15 to SCVO charity of the year, with Artlink Central and NHS FV shortlisted as perfect partnership category finalist
Artlink Central Arts Annual Report for NHS Forth Valley 2013-2014
Project Name
Behind the Scenes' Residency
Participant Groups
All Client Groups
Location
Forth Valley Royal Hospital and other community settings To be determined
Geographical
Falkirk, Stirling
Project Summary
As a key element of the new SLA, and in celebration of our 25th Anniversary, Artlink Central commissioned visual artist Sally Booth as our first Forth Valley Artist in Residence. Sally was based in the reception of the corporate suite in Forth Valley Royal Hospital with the brief to create drawing based interventions and to get beneath the skin of the hospital in an inclusive way. Her residency included a live drawing event at Cornton Vale prison in Stirling, where the women were encouraged to draw what they could see of the grounds through specially designed transparent drawing panels. She has also worked in a mental health ward at Forth Valley Royal Hospital to encourage interaction between patients. Drawing classes have also taken place in the surrounding woodland with adults with learning disabilities
Artists
Sally Booth
Partners
Health Records, Corporate Suite, Surgical Departments, Ward 4 Dementia, Forestry Commission, HMP Cornton Vale, Microbiology,
No of Participants
150+
No. of Sessions
25
No. of Attendances
158
Audience Key Performance Indicators NHS INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE STRATEGY
SLA Programme Outcomes Impact on Patients
240 support community based as well as acute services; • help address the challenges faced by the most deprived and vulnerable in communities across Forth Valley; are accessible to all and support NHSFV’s equality and diversity agenda; • improve patients and service user’s experience. support the aims and objectives of the arts strategy; contribute to the national arts and health agenda in partnership with NHSFV; include creative work by patients and service users in public exhibitions and events; 1a,1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, 3, 4, 6 114 women engaged in a drawing project in HMP YOI Cornton Vale, reaching the majority of women in the prison in one day, and involving them in an accessible project that reduced barriers to participation and which was highly visible. The majority of these women have mental health issues and/or learning disabilities and the majority do not engage in education. Drawing project adapted to support patients in Lochview (adults with learning disabilities) and Ward 5 FVRH (older people with mental health unit) making drawing on light boxes and acetate as an accessible and expressive activity. Project reached staff of NHS Forth Valley and SERCO not normally involved in creative projects or visible to the public and engaged them in a meaningful creative process 100% impact in enhancing the immediate environment; enhancing participants experience of healthcare or health services.
Impact on clinical/healthcare/community environment
New work created for temporary exhibition with opportunities to site across hospital / over 50 works created.
Impact on Staff /Volunteers/Partners
Reached new clinical environments as well as public and corporate spaces and into other settings such as prisons. Staff not normally engaged with participatory work involved for the first time.
Outcomes against Service Level Agreement Organisational learning
Extending the reach of Artlink Central across the hospital estate and creating new partnerships and works. First residency project in the hospital setting. Supported prison understanding and embedding of arts programme throughout the institution, particularly supporting increased connection to wellbeing. Strong example of model of artist residency delivering against a large range of indicators. For 2014-15 an exhibition of the residency work is planned as is a slideshow screening of work on the Wall of Wellbeing at FVRH during October 2014. Some work installed in healthcare settings
NHS ARTS AND WELLBEING STRATEGY
Awards/Legacy/Development Plans 2014-16
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Project Name
The Way we Wear
Participant Groups
Older People
Location
Forth Valley Royal Hospital; Stirling Community Hospital; Falkirk Community Hospital; Dunblane Museum; Forth Valley College Clackmannanshire, Falkirk; Stirling.
Geographical Project Summary
Artlink Centrals participatory arts programme with older people in hospitals ‘The way we wear’ celebrated skills of patients from the ‘make do and mend’ post war generation of the 1940’s and 50’s and blended them with the up cycling and vintage chic skills of Artlink Central artists working through recession. Although the delivery and patient contact time of the programme finished in early 2013, the work has been exhibited in the following settings: • Atrium and main corridor at Forth Valley Royal Hospital, Larbert from 3rd October to 22nd November 2013 as part of Luminate, Creative Aging Festival 2013 • Foyer of Forth Valley College at the Artlink Central 25th Birthday celebrations 5th September 2013 [capsule exhibition]
Artists Partners
Christine Hilditch, Nikki Monaghan, Frances Douglas, Sue Myles, Shirley Marzella, Leanne Fulton Forth Valley College, Luminate Festival, Age Scotland
No of Participants
40
No. of Sessions
40
No. of Attendances
458
Audience Key Performance Indicators NHS INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE STRATEGY
59600 support the increased demand for work with older people to reflect the changing demography of Forth Valley’s population; provide examples of good practice; improve patients and service user’s experience.
NHS ARTS AND WELLBEING STRATEGY
· support the aims and objectives of the arts strategy; include creative work by patients and service users in public exhibitions and events; contribute to the national arts and health agenda in partnership with NHSFV. 1a, 1b, 1c, 1g, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Patients shared skills with peers and rediscovered or learnt techniques and interests. Increased social opportunities within ward environments. Patients concentration and focus increased
SLA Programme Outcomes Impact on Patients
Impact on clinical/healthcare/community environment Impact on Staff /Volunteers/Partners Outcomes against Service Level Agreement Organisational learning Awards/Legacy/Development Plans 2014-16
Overwhelmingly positive anecdotal feedback from public who recognised the benefit of patient work being exhibited in a high quality and uplifting presentation. Created talking points and even generated creative responses with addition of reminiscence objects to some of the exhibits. Positive change to the clinical environment for patients, staff and visitors. The majority of the exhibited work was returned to the wards and the patients who created the work. Staff felt recognised and valued through the photographic work and documentation. Bold contemporary curation of publicly exhibited work by patients can be an effective mechanism to engage public and communities in positive images of disability, healthcare and age, reducing stigma. One complaint regarding the use of an image of a patient, whose circumstances had changed since giving permission highlighted need to review permissions carefully if there is a delay between delivery and exhibition. 2014-15 programme includes further exhibition opportunities• In the Artlink Central gallery as part of Forth Valley Open Studios 2nd – 16th June 2014 [capsule exhibition] • Makers Gallery, Alloa, 30th June to 28th July 2014 [capsule exhibition] Exhibition drew larger audience than rest of the Luminate Festival programme combined.
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Project Name
7
Wyndham Tree
Participant Groups
All Client Groups
Location
Forth Valley Royal Hospital Children's Department Wards 4 and 5 Mental Health Unit, Bellsdyke Hospital, Joint Dementia Initiative Falkirk
Geographical Project Summary
Artists Partners
Artists worked with local people diagnosed with dementia to create large leaves for the 30-foot Wynden Tree sculpture created by artist Alex Rigg as part of Helix Day in Falkirk on Saturday 14th September. Helix Day marked the completion of Helix Park and invited the public to explore their new greenspace. The leaves were created across Ward 4 and 5 of Forth Valley Royal Hospital, supported by artist Michele Mathieson, and in community settings in partnership with Falkirk Council’s Joint Dementia Initiative Services, supported by artist Christine Hilditch. The leaves were created by exploring the interests of patients with regards to local heritage and nature and reflecting local landmarks such as the Bo’ness Hippodrome. Christine Hilditch, Michele Mathieson, Lesley Anne Derks and Jaqueline Marr Falkirk Community Trust, Joint Dementia Initiative
No of Participants
8
No. of Sessions
8
No. of Attendances
64
Audience Key Performance Indicators NHS INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE STRATEGY
+6000 support the increased demand for work with older people to reflect the changing demography of Forth Valley’s population; support community based as well as acute services; help address the challenges faced by the most deprived and vulnerable in communities across Forth Valley;
NHS ARTS AND WELLBEING STRATEGY
Consolidate Artlink Central’s role as a creative agent working across healthcare and voluntary settings; include creative work by patients and service users in public exhibitions and events;
SLA Programme Outcomes Impact on Patients
1c, 1g, 4, 5 Inclusion in a wider project that marked a significant cultural and heritage event across the region, some participants who would not ordinarily attend, engaged through participation and did attend
Impact on clinical/healthcare/community environment Impact on Staff /Volunteers/Partners
Short term project had less impact on staff and clinical environment
Outcomes against Service Level Agreement
Although there was limited timescales for the programme, the following was reported anecdotally. The programme a) was stimulating and accessible; b) provoked a positive response; c) encouraged communication and sociability; d) could lead to staff-led activity;
Organisational learning
The participants who were unable to attend the Helix Day expressed a desire for the work to visit their settings once competed, and unfortunately this was difficult to plan in retrospect, so in future, some legacy should be planned even for short projects. The work was incorporated into an internationally touring outdoor artwork installation and formed part of the Helix Programme and the John Muir Festival
Awards/Legacy/Development Plans 2014-16
Increased engagement with UZ Arts and the Helix
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Project Name
8
Children’s Ward Digital Residency
Participant Groups
Children and Young People
Location
Forth Valley Royal Hospital Children's Department
Geographical
Falkirk
Project Summary
The purpose of this residency was to research, explore and develop participatory arts projects using interactive digital creative tools that would allow young people to engage in creative activities without an artist being present. The artist was asked to explore and create digital projects for and with participants that can be accessed by young people when they are well enough, or when they are back in the ward as returning patients; and Explore and create film, animation and gaming projects made by participants within the Children’s Ward, working within the various constraints of the hospital; The artist developed a game template which could be accessed by young people at the ward on specially bought equipment and via their homes. This allowed patients to design and work on their own personalised gaming projects both in the ward and at home. The artist also created tools that can be used by Play Leaders, Teaching and other staff in the ward with patients when artists are not available; The artists and the play leaders and young people developed and designed a number of distraction tools which had excellent feedback. These are being left in situation for the Play leaders continued use. The artist worked with patients aged 3- 14, and adapted the games and accessibility of the game technology so that was playable by all ages and abilities. The artist was able to adapt the technology for a young person with learning disability. Two accessible tablets and keyboard and players where purchased as part of the project, one which will stay in situ. This equipment met all the risk & infection control standards The artists used painting and drawing as the tool for games, therefore a young person could draw a character which would then be inputted into the game, making each young person’s game completely personalised.
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Artlink Central Arts Annual Report for NHS Forth Valley 2013-2014 Artists
Jack King Spooner
Partners
Play Workers, Children and Families Nursing Staff
No of Participants
14
No. of Sessions
18
9
No. of Attendances
16
Audience Key Performance Indicators NHS INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE STRATEGY
Families, Carers, and staff in attendances in isolation rooms, and clinical wards Play a role in preventative care and help build up participants’ autonomy and resilience; • improve patients and service user’s experience.
NHS ARTS AND WELLBEING STRATEGY
Support the aims and objectives of the arts strategy; identify and develop new areas of creative activity; consolidate Artlink’s role as a creative agent working across healthcare and voluntary settings; develop new creative partnerships with NHSFV; include creative work by patients and service users in public exhibitions and events; contribute to the national arts and health agenda in partnership with NHSFV. a) to improve health and wellbeing; b) to improve quality of life; c) to increase inclusion; Participants identified the following outcomes as part of their feedback: It reduced their boredom; made them feel happy, learnt new skills, Distracted them from pain and discomfort;
SLA Programme Outcomes Impact on Patients
Impact on clinical/healthcare/community environment
The play leaders and the nursing staff, have identified that the artists interaction had a positive impact on the wellbeing and health of patients, that both artist and patient expressed enjoyment. The distraction tools were accessible for all ages and work well during medical procedures such as injections etc.
Impact on Staff /Volunteers/Partners
The staff in the children’s ward have embraced the arts and its impact on the environment and taken the lead in how they use the arts in their daily work. Relationships between staff and Artlink Central have strengthened over the last year with staff involved in artists recruitment and suggestion of ways forward. The project has allowed both staff and Artlink Central to develop and design new programmes and technology that can be further developed by NHSFV to meet patient experience needs and evaluations. The design of programmes that can be taken forward by NHS staff has directly contributed to staff skill sets. Artlink Central has been exploring technology especially new technology and ways to adapt and to identify needs. • Exploring how you can connect children through technology, who due to medical or infection reasons cannot leave their rooms. Increasing access to social opportunities, and reducing boredom; The artist and the staff identified two reasons for not pursuing this element of the research, firstly the technical infrastructure was not in place within the unit. Secondly when reviewing the risk element to some young people’s wellbeing especially those identified with mental health illness, it was recognised that unmonitored communication may have a direct impact on patient wellbeing. To ensure quality across all patients this item was not explored further at this junction. There has been interest in taking forward the results of this research in the children’s ward, with patient centred care initiative and patient feedback. The NHS are exploring digital research avenue funding. The arts and wellbeing coordinator, Artlink Central and Children Ward are to meet to explore taking digital technology forward within the ward and beyond
Outcomes against Service Level Agreement Organisational learning
Awards/Legacy/Development Plans 2014-16
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Project Name
Sitting Room Project
Participant Groups
Elderly People
Location
Forth Valley Royal Hospital Ward B21
Geographical
Falkirk
Project Summary
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Artists
The aim was to de-clinicalise the environment in the sitting room in ward B21 [one of very few wards to have an additional sitting room] The unwelcoming space was rarely used by patients or staff, occasionally used to de-escalate patients who were having an episode of delirium or as a space for visitors to meet with patients. It was basically a white box with pale grey floor. There were significant issues and restrictions around infection control in this setting that was critical to take into account before any design interventions. Emma Herman-Smith, Christine Hilditch
Partners
Friends of Forth Valley Royal Hospital
No of Participants
8
No. of Sessions No. of Attendances Audience Key Performance Indicators NHS INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE STRATEGY
11 days 88 n/a support the increased demand for work with older people to reflect the changing demography of Forth Valley’s population; ensure that joint working, with NHSFV and other third sector partners, achieves NHSFV’s strategic outcomes to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for those involved; improve patients and service user’s experience. support the aims and objectives of the arts strategy; identify and develop new areas of creative activity; develop new creative partnerships with NHSFV; contribute to the national arts and health agenda in partnership with NHSFV. 1a, b, c, d, e, 2, 3, 4, Patients were involved in 4 participatory sessions on the ward to identify themes, colours and the scale of the design. The artists also worked with the forestry ranger to identify flora and fauna that could be found in the extensive Forth Valley Royal Hospitals grounds. Impact to be measured on installation in 2014-15
NHS ARTS AND WELLBEING STRATEGY SLA Programme Outcomes Impact on Patients
Impact on clinical/healthcare/community environment Impact on Staff /Volunteers/Partners Outcomes against Service Level Agreement
Organisational learning Awards/Legacy/Development Plans 2014-16
The design was then put together and is currently being made into a remote control blind that closes from bottom to top [ to be fitted through Serco in November 2014]. Patients, Staff and families can enjoy the whole design or reveal the flowers and butterflies inch by inch. Artlink Central would like to extend some of the motifs throughout the ward corridors to support way finding for all who use the space. Staff involvement has been essential for this project, but impact of the work on staff use of the environment is yet to be determined. As the work is not yet installed the full evaluation is not complete, but expected outcomes for patients carers and staff, for whom the creative project or activity: a) was stimulating and accessible; b) provoked a positive response; c) encouraged communication and sociability; d) could lead to staff-led activity; e) helped to increase orientation. Challenging and developmental in terms of participatory arts practice and inclusive design in healthcare settings meeting clinical guidelines, but has significance as a project in terms of future applications, Evaluation will be by early 2015
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Artlink Central Arts Annual Report for NHS Forth Valley 2013-2014
Project Name
Seasoned
Participant Groups
Elderly People with Dementia
Location
Forth Valley Royal Hospital Ward 4; Bo’Ness Hospital Ward 2; Stirling Community Hospital Ward 2; Clackmannan Community Health Care Centre Ward 2 Falkirk; Stirling; Clackmannashire
Geographical Project Summary
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Partners
Seasoned 2 focussed on artists working collaboratively, where possible with other art forms and developing their practice to engage NHS Forth Valley patients diagnosed with dementia to: • promote their sense of wellbeing and of self • enhance their environment, • respect the patients dignity and the value of a life lived • give them creative space to be in an absorbed state of activity. The programme supported learning and interaction through practice and each ward had artists visiting over 20 sessions, creating thoughtful, innovative and contemporary arts workshops designed to engage patients, respect their dignity and focus on opening up communication with families and staff. The focus and outcome of the project was to engage and encourage older people through the arts to express and describe themselves. Two of the projects had collaborative live cello and saxophone input. Malcy Duff, Déirdre Ni Mathura, Michele Mathieson, Frances Douglas, Haleh Jamali, Rosas Mitchell, Lindsay Mcfarlane, Libby Yule, Steven Smith, Aline Gow n/a
No of Participants
18
Artists
No. of Sessions
7
No. of Attendances
79
Audience Key Performance Indicators NHS INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE STRATEGY
1600 Support the increased demand for work with older people to reflect the changing demography of Forth Valley’s population; ensure that joint working, with NHSFV and other third sector partners, achieves NHSFV’s strategic outcomes to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for those involved; play a role in preventative care and help build up participants’ autonomy and resilience; provide examples of good practice; improve patients and service user’s experience.
NHS ARTS AND WELLBEING STRATEGY SLA Programme Outcomes Impact on Patients
Support the aims and objectives of the arts strategy; identify and develop new areas of creative activity; include creative work by patients and service users in public exhibitions and events; contribute to the national arts and health agenda in partnership with NHSFV. 1a, b, c, d, e, 2, 3 , 4, 5, 6 Patients engaged with the workshops fully, sometimes in groups and some on an individual basis. Initial invaluable Staff support directed the artists as to which settings patients would like to work in and what would be most beneficial. During a collaborative arts and music session in CCHC a patient who had previously not engaged began singing along with the traditional Scottish song that the cellist was playing
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from the other end of the corridor, he spent 2 hours in the session singing favourite songs that he used to perform as a young man. Social interaction, stimulation and celebration of lives being lived were key to the success of these workshops. The patients continue to enjoy some group pieces of work that have been permanently hung in the wards. Impact on clinical/healthcare/community environment Impact on Staff /Volunteers/Partners Outcomes against Service Level Agreement
Post exhibition the completed work was returned to the wards and to the patients. Work is permanently displayed in public areas within Stirling Community Hospital, CCHC. Individual work has been returned to patients in FVRH and Bo’Ness Hospital for patients to share with families and staff to stimulate conversation and reminiscence As always, staff support was critical to the success of these programmes. The group work which is exhibited in some of the wards, is valued and enjoyed. Older People (in-patients in acute wards or residents in care homes with dementia).The final work was exhibited in high profile settings and staff patients and families were informed and encouraged to view their work prior to it being returned to the wards. Staff embraced work being permanently displayed in the ward settings and could see the relevance and legacy of the work for present and future patients. The process and outcomes of the creative activity of Seasoned was:
g)
e) was stimulating and accessible; f) provoked a positive response; encouraged communication and sociability; h) could lead to staff-led activity; i) helped to increase orientation.
Organisational learning
‘To continue experimenting, don’t cut any stones.’ Artist Quote
Awards/Legacy/Development Plans 2014-16
The physical space of a bedroom should be a private, safe space where we keep our most personal possessions. It should have privacy and a sense of security. In busy residential facilities this takes on even more importance. Working closely with staff within Bo’Ness Hospital, a digital artist and the mentor of the Artlink Central Seasoned team, Artlink Central are planning a research and development pilot project into individual, navigational signage to support patients finding their way to their rooms
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Project Name
Bellsdyke Archive Art Project
Participant Groups
Mental Health
Location
Bellsdyke Hospital, The University of Stirling
Geographical
Falkirk; Stirling
Project Summary
Working with Stirling University’ Archive of the Stirling District Asylum, artist Sharon Quigley, would deliver a participatory project with adults with severe and enduring mental health problems who are receiving treatment in the Bellsdyke site of Forth Valley NHS. The participatory project would create artworks in response to the archive, the project would be supported by the Art and Occupational Therapists based in Bellsdyke.
Artists
The artists would also create her own response to the archive and the participatory process. Sharon Quigley
Partners
The University of Stirling Archive, and the Art Collection University of Stirling
No of Participants
TBC
No. of Sessions
TBC
No. of Attendances Audience Key Performance Indicators NHS INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE STRATEGY
TBC TBC Ensure that joint working, with NHSFV and other third sector partners, achieves NHSFV’s strategic outcomes to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for those involved; help address the challenges faced by the most deprived and vulnerable in communities across Forth Valley; play a role in preventative care and help build up participants’ autonomy and resilience; are accessible to all and support NHSFV’s equality and diversity agenda; improve patients and service user’s experience. Identify and develop new areas of creative activity; develop new creative partnerships with NHSFV; include creative work by patients and service users in public exhibitions and events; contribute to the national arts and health agenda in partnership with NHSFV; consolidate Artlink’s role as a creative agent working across healthcare and voluntary settings; to improve health and wellbeing; b) to improve quality of life; c) to increase inclusion; d) to increase choice and control; e) to help reduce health inequalities; f) to help reduce use of mental health services; g) to help reduce the stigma of mental illness. TBC TBC
NHS ARTS AND WELLBEING STRATEGY SLA Programme Outcomes
Impact on Patients Impact on clinical/healthcare/community environment Impact on Staff /Volunteers/Partners Outcomes against Service Level Agreement Organisational learning Awards/Legacy/Development Plans 2014-16
TBC TBC Artlink Central and the arts therapists are meeting regularly to devise guidelines to artists practice in NHS Setting especially with adults with mental health, looking at best practice and existing guidelines. The project delivery was delayed to 2014-2015, the artists has worked with the archive in researching the project, and been developing the practice in one in one sessions with the Arts Therapist, to ensure that patients participation meets the patients standards when working with most at risk vulnerable adults.
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Artlink Central Arts Annual Report for NHS Forth Valley 2013-2014
Project Name
Intergenerational Wall Frieze
Participant Groups
Older People
Location
Wards 1 & 2 and 3 & 4 in Falkirk Community Hospital
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Geographical
Falkirk
Project Summary
Artists
Pupils from Stenhousemuir Primary School worked with Artlink Central artists to develop the design. Initial research was informed by speaking with staff and patients in Ward 2, Falkirk Community Hospital and to the pupils at Stenhousemuir Primary about places they remembered from their youth, or their favourite places in the Falkirk area. The pupils also did their own research by interviewing elderly local residents and family members in the area. Emma Bowen, Frances Douglas
Partners
Stenhousemuir Primary School
No of Participants
10
No. of Sessions
3
No. of Attendances
30
Audience Key Performance Indicators NHS INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE STRATEGY
TBC Support the increased demand for work with older people to reflect the changing demography of Forth Valley’s population; ensure that joint working, with NHSFV and other third sector partners, achieves NHSFV’s strategic outcomes to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for those involved; help address the challenges faced by the most deprived and vulnerable in communities across Forth Valley; improve patients and service user’s experience. Support the aims and objectives of the arts strategy; identify and develop new areas of creative activity; consolidate Artlink’s role as a creative agent working across healthcare and voluntary settings; develop new creative partnerships with NHSFV; include creative work by patients and service users in public exhibitions and events; contribute to the national arts and health agenda in partnership with NHSFV. 1c, g, 3, 4, 5, 6 Work just completed on installation phase, so impact on patients to be determined, more impact likely on visitors and staff as in waiting areas The existing colour schemes in the two waiting areas were taken into full consideration. The wallpaper now hangs in the waiting areas of Wards 1 & 2 and 3 & 4 in Falkirk Community Hospital.
NHS ARTS AND WELLBEING STRATEGY SLA Programme Outcomes Impact on Patients Impact on clinical/healthcare/community environment Impact on Staff /Volunteers/Partners
Pupils participated in a meaningful design process and increased awareness of dementia and older people, reducing stigma. They will be visiting the waiting areas to see the finished design installed.
Outcomes against Service Level Agreement
This bespoke design has individualised waiting areas into interesting and engaging spaces where patients, visitors and staff can enjoy an aesthetically pleasing frieze that celebrates the local area to Falkirk Community Hospital. The participant led inter generational focus of this piece of work has supported the opportunity for: a) self-expression; b) an enhanced sense of value and attainment; d) maintaining and/or developing skills; e) team working or autonomy; f) enhancing the immediate environment; g) enhancing their experience of healthcare or health services.
Organisational learning Awards/Legacy/Development Plans 2014-16
Successful retrofitting pilot project Wallpaper technology should be a lasting and affordable retrofit solution to environmental challenges in healthcare settings, researched production processes and costing.
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Project Name
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Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival
Participant Groups
Mental Health
Location
Stirling University
Geographical
Stirling
Project Summary
Artlink Central manage the coordination of the Forth Valleys Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival. In 2013 the following activities were arranged by the partner organisations: Artlink Central Artspace Third Sector Referral group were in residence at the Art Collection, Stirling University - their exhibition Reality was on 21st Sept - 31st Oct 2013; Seasoned This is Me Exhibition created as part of Forth Valley NHS Dementia project exhibition at Dunblane Museum Wed 2 Oct - Sat 19 Oct 2013; FDAMH held a Comedy Gala Night 10th October; Townbreak Dementia Exhibition 'A Sense of Place' was jointly exhibited at Dunblane Museum with the Seasoned Exhibition. A Creative Road Fri 4th Oct - was an evening designed and coordinated by Artlink Central, which engaged Mental Health Organisations and individuals across the Forth Valley to come and share the arts they use in mental health recovery and maintenance with the public and to create a platform to challenge stigma and raise awareness. Fiona Milligan-Rennie plus participant artists
Artists Partners No of Participants
University of Stirling Art Collection, Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, Action in Mind, Reachout with Arts in Mind, Adult Learning Stirling Council & Falkirk Council, FDAMH, Stun, Stirling Makar, LMIB Sunlife Café; Townbreak, Falkirk Community Trust 70-80 A Creative Road
No. of Sessions
1 A Creative Road
No. of Attendances
n/a
Audience Key Performance Indicators NHS INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE STRATEGY
82 A Creative Road Ensure that joint working, with NHSFV and other third sector partners, achieves NHSFV’s strategic outcomes to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for those involved; support community based as well as acute services; help address the challenges faced by the most deprived and vulnerable in communities across Forth Valley; support the integration of health and social care; play a role in preventative care and help build up participants’ autonomy and resilience; are accessible to all and support NHSFV’s equality and diversity agenda; Support the aims and objectives of the arts strategy; identify and develop new areas of creative activity; consolidate Artlink’s role as a creative agent working across healthcare and voluntary settings; develop new creative partnerships with NHSFV; include creative work by patients and service users in public exhibitions and events; contribute to the national arts and health agenda in partnership with NHSFV. a) to improve health and wellbeing; b) to improve quality of life; c) to increase inclusion; d) to increase choice and control; f) to help reduce use of mental health services; g) to help reduce the stigma of mental illness. All the programmes included in the SMHAFF programme provided a platform for individuals to access and use arts in their mental health recovery and maintenance. All activities have an impact on patient health, wellbeing, social inclusion, confidence, peer support, skills development, autonomy, education and open up further opportunity. A Creative Road provided an opportunity for participants and participating organisations from across the Forth Valley to come, share and celebrate. Creating new partnerships and strengthening working relationships
NHS ARTS AND WELLBEING STRATEGY SLA Programme Outcomes
Impact on Patients
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Impact on clinical/healthcare/community environment
All SMHAFF projects have a impact on stigma and health awareness, partnerships were developed and strengthened and there was much opportunity for community engagement.
Impact on Staff /Volunteers/Partners
Partners got to meet and discuss shared ideology and plans, they also got an opportunity to reflect and celebrate excellent practice.
Outcomes against Service Level Agreement
The SMHAFF festival has created opportunities for creative work created by patients to be exhibited in a National festival, it has consolidated relationships across healthcare and third sector settings; it has supported the integration of health and social care by providing a platform for both to be shown; it has tackled discrimination and stigma of Mental Health, and enable equality by providing a national professional opportunity for a vulnerable excluded groups A shared event across forth valley organisations, provided a great opportunity to identify and strengthen partnerships and look forward to future working relationships
Organisational learning Awards/Legacy/Development Plans 2014-16
In 2014-2015 there has been greater buy in to the Festival, with plans in place for a joint working group for 2015-2016
Project Name
Mental Health Unit Design Project
Participant Groups
Mental Health / Elderly People and Dementia
Location
Forth Valley Royal Hospital Mental Health Unit
Geographical
Falkirk
Project Summary
Partnership contribution to the medium-term project redesigning spaces in the Forth Valley Royal Hospital Mental Health Unit. Artlink Central have worked as a member of the steering group to engage participation in the scoping of the sited arts planning, supported funding applications and development of the programme as a support to the Arts and Wellbeing Coordinator.
Artists
Helen Hamlyn Institute, Jaqueline Donnachie, Sharon Quigley
Partners
Mental Health Unit Arts Steering Group
No of Participants
20+
No. of Sessions
n/a
No. of Attendances
n/a
Audience Key Performance Indicators NHS INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE STRATEGY
n/a Support the increased demand for work with older people to reflect the changing demography of Forth Valley’s population; ensure that joint working, with NHSFV and other third sector partners, achieves NHSFV’s strategic outcomes to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for those involved; help address the challenges faced by the most deprived and vulnerable in communities across Forth Valley; improve patients and service user’s experience.
NHS ARTS AND WELLBEING STRATEGY
Support the aims and objectives of the arts strategy; identify and develop new areas of creative activity; include creative work by patients and service users in public exhibitions and events; contribute to the national arts and health agenda in partnership with NHSFV.
SLA Programme Outcomes Impact on Patients
3, 4, 5, 6 TBC
Impact on clinical/healthcare/community environment
The focus is on addressing researched issues in the physical environment in the mental health unit, to make significant long term changes through retrofitting.
Impact on Staff /Volunteers/Partners
Aim to decrease staff concerns over environment and increase well being
Outcomes against Service Level Agreement Organisational learning
Not achieved as yet
Awards/Legacy/Development Plans 2014-16
Increased understanding of commissioning for sited art work and retrofitting, increased understanding of environmental needs in clinical settings in mental health Funding secured and artists appointed. Artlink Central will support the programme with any participatory input and develop future programmes to support the aspirations of the project.
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Project Name
Lochview
Participant Groups
People with Learning Disabilities
Location
Loch View
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Geographical
Falkirk
Project Summary
From December 2013 to March 2014, two artists with digital and music skills worked with a small group of Lochview residents. This programme was informed by the Abrupt Encounters programme from spring 2013, where Lochview residents explored the woodland around their home with artists working from a sensory, nature based perspective
Artists
Alan Bryden /Anneke Kampmann
Partners
Forestry Commission
No of Participants
10
No. of Sessions
16
No. of Attendances
160
Audience Key Performance Indicators NHS INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE STRATEGY
TBC
NHS ARTS AND WELLBEING STRATEGY SLA Programme Outcomes Impact on Patients
Help address the challenges faced by the most deprived and vulnerable in communities across Forth Valley; play a role in preventative care and help build up participants’ autonomy and resilience; provide examples of good practice; are accessible to all and support NHSFV’s equality and diversity agenda; improve patients and service user’s experience. Support the aims and objectives of the arts strategy; identify and develop new areas of creative activity; develop new creative partnerships with NHSFV; include creative work by patients and service users in public exhibitions and events; contribute to the national arts and health agenda in partnership with NHSFV. 1a, b, c, d, e 2, 3, 4 1a) x 4 patients x 2 O.T. Technicians x 2 Art Link Artists; This project exceeded past what we expected. It was a very enjoyable project to be involved in. The patients spoke about the activities and both the Artists all the time. They would ask when it would be Thursday because they knew it would be Art Link again and they were so looking forward to the Artists coming in on that particular morning. Even when the project came to an end the patients spoke about the project all the time and spoke about the Artist fondly asking if they would ever be back to do another project. This project has made quite a lasting impression on all involved. So yes to the question- very meaningful and satisfying project. 1b) x 4 patients x 2 O.T. Technicians x 2 Art Link Artists; The activities were great and exciting the project offered us all new experiences as no one had ever done this type of art work before like we did in this project. It was great to see the patients curiosity and excitement and being really pleased with their efforts. 1c) x 4 patients1x 2 O.T. Technicians x 2 Art Link Artists; The project was fun, exciting, and very motivating for all. The patients especially showed great motivation and shared ideas and thoughts as there were a lot of on the spot improvisation. It was fantastic to see the patients taking ownership of their work when engaging in all the activities that the project offered. They made the decisions what to draw, deciding what objects to move and how far, what sounds they made with objects all in the creation of animation and sound, they also loved using all the gadgets e.g. the camera, micro phone swithes etc. Watching all the individual patients being active and creative in their own way made the final outcomes of the various clips of film and sounds great to watch and listen to. 1d The fun on the spot improvisation using everyday objects and using other areas of space to do activity was brilliant. We as O.T. staff can tend to contain the activity within in the boundary of our rooms in our interventions. So this was another well thought out project doing things differently and of using everyday
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objects in a creative way.
Impact on clinical/healthcare/community environment Impact on Staff /Volunteers/Partners
In this project the aim was to encourage access to outdoor and alternative spaces. The films were shared back to the patients and were recently projected large scale onto the outside of Forth Valley Royal Hospital from the 8th to 11th October 2014 as part of The Wall of Wellbeing OT Staff and OT manager completely engaged. Were fearless and supported the artists in the new media they were sharing with residents. So positive
Outcomes against Service Level Agreement
People with severe learning disabilities (in healthcare and community settings) 100 (%) of participants, from feedback provided by themselves and/or with the support of carers and/or staff, who found: a) the experience satisfying and meaningful; b) that the activity met their creative aspirations; c) that they could do, and engage with, the activity; d) that the activity, if planned as such, developed creative or transferable skills.
Organisational learning
Partnerships with the Forestry Commission lend sustainability to work with this group.
Awards/Legacy/Development Plans 2014-16
There is a new programme beginning in November 2014 based around music, composition and recording. Participants engaged well with technology previously so the artist wants to keep up the momentum and keep challenging them.
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