Policies & Strategies
This section presents a range of policies and strategies relevant to arts and health practice.
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Oireachtas Report on the Development of Local and Community Arts
The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media published a report on the Development of Local and Community Arts in July 2024. The report includes a number of significant recommendations in relation to Arts and Health following a public hearing and submissions from the sector.
23 July, 2024
Health Services Healthy Ireland Implementation Plan 2023 – 2027
Strengthening partnership and community working is one of the strategic priority areas, and includes a partnership approach with Creative Ireland, the Arts Council, and Healthy Ireland in the Department of Health to identify and support key opportunities to strengthen arts and health in the HSE.
9 July, 2023
Arts for Health Partnership Programme West Cork: Strategic Plan 2023-2028
The Arts for Health Partnership Programme provides year-round cultural and creative activities for residents of community hospitals, older people attending day care centres, and their family carers across West Cork.
8 July, 2023
Stronger Together: The HSE Mental Health Promotion Plan 2022-2027
This five year plan includes action areas focused on promoting positive mental health across the population and among HSE staff. There is a specific action to strengthen the role of arts and creativity in the promotion of mental health and wellbeing within the HSE and HSE-funded agencies.
6 July, 2022
Healthy Ireland Strategic Action Plan 2021–2025
Healthy Ireland is the national framework for action to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone living in Ireland. The Strategic Action Plan 2021-2025 includes priority focus areas for arts and culture.
8 March, 2022
HSE Social Prescribing Framework
The HSE Social Prescribing Framework supports the development of social prescribing within the HSE. It sets out a common approach for the delivery of social prescribing across the organisation.
1 August, 2021
Sláintecare Implementation Strategy & Action Plan 2021 – 2023
Sláintecare is the Government's ten-year programme to transform Ireland's health and social care services.
6 July, 2021
Culture 2025: A National Cultural Policy Framework to 2025
Culture 2025 is a Policy Framework that defines the scope and sets the direction for Government policy in the whole cultural field.
5 March, 2020
A Manifesto for Arts and Health Practice in Ireland
This Manifesto for Arts and Health was written in 2016 by a group of Arts and Health Co-ordinators who work across a range of healthcare settings in the Republic of Ireland.
27 February, 2020
Paying the Artist: An Arts Council policy on the fair and equitable remuneration and contracting of artists
Within this Fair and Equitable Remuneration and Contracting Policy, the Arts Council articulates its position and expectations with regard to remuneration and contracting within the arts sector.
12 February, 2020
WHO Europe Sector Brief: Intersectoral action: the arts, health and well-being
This sector brief is informed by the Health 2020 policy framework adopted by all Member States of the WHO European Region and the WHO Health Evidence Network synthesis report on the evidence base for arts and health interventions.
17 December, 2019
Leading Collaborative Arts In Ireland: Create Strategy 2020 – 2025
Create publishes their 2020-2025 strategy at a time of significant global change and in the firm belief that by working together, artists and communities can purposefully explore how collaborative arts engage in distinct, relevant and powerful ways with the urgent social, cultural and political issues of our times.
7 October, 2019
