We know that there is unique potential for the arts to be used in health care settings.  From developing care services and professional practice to helping patients envisage and refine strategies to cope with ill health, the arts have a valuable role to play.  Through our work to date we have seen the impact that the arts can have.  We have seen people helped and healed through arts intervention.

However, the application of many arts practices in health care fields are emerging specialities, without agreed protocols, practices or the best way of doing things.  Furthermore we don't believe that we yet know the extent that the arts could be used to improve health care, or the specific benefits of refining and implementing specialist arts and health activity.

We want to develop the expertise to able to argue for, prove and deliver the valuable work that the arts can play in the delivery and refinement of health care services.  We want to analyse and refine the application of drama techniques to rehearse behaviour change, and impact on the way people prepare and undertake interventions in their own and other people's lives.  We want to be at the forefront of the movement to justify and develop the role that the arts plays in health and wellbeing.