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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: New Thinking: health inequalities
Description: From exercise on prescription to museum visits and debt advice. Christienna Fryar hears about social prescribing projects which are trying to link up the arts with other services to improve people’s health and tackle loneliness. These include wild swimming in the waterways of Nottinghamshire, the “Arts for the Blues” project based in the North west of England, a pilot programme in Scotland called “Art at the Start”, and a community hub at the Grange in Blackpool.
Helen Chatterjee, Professor of Human and Ecological Health at UCL is heading a programme which brings together a range of national partners including...