Arts in Health Care

Both editors have recently retired after more than 30 years in NHS Management Charles Kaye was Chief Executive of the Special Hospitals Service Authority. Tony Blee was General Manager of the Isle of Wight Health Authority.

• Introduction, Tony Blee. 1. State of the Art, Charles Kaye. BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT. 2. The Arts in Health Movement, Peter Senior, Director of Arts for Health, Manchester. 3. Art in Hospital Project, Mary Hooper, Hastings and Rother NHS Trust. 4. The Best Music in the World: The Work of the Council for Music in Hospitals, Sylvia Lindsay, President Emerita, The Council for Music in Hospitals. 5. Paintings in Hospitals, Raphael Eban. WORKING WITH EXISTING BUILDINGS. 6. Puchasing and Commissioning Visual Art in Hospitals, Nigel Weaver. 7. Recipe for Conversion: Working in the Psychiatric Environment, Peter J. Salmon and Graham A. Moore, M.S. Associates Surveyors and Building Consultants. 8. Projects for Specific Needs, Gail Bolland, Healthcare Arts. NEW BUILDINGS. 9. St Mary's Hospital - An Alliance of Art and Interior Design, Stephen Nicoll, Interior Designer. 10. St Mary's Hospital, Isle of Wight - Arts Project, Richard Burton, Architect, Ahrends, Burton and Koralek. 11. Spaces between Buildings in the Healthcare Estate, John Lynch, Architect. THE COMMUNITY. 12. Healing Arts: Isle of Wight: Arts for the Hospital and the Community, Guy Eades, Arts Director. 13. Independent Arts, Meryel Boyd, Independent Arts, Isle of Wight. 14. Celebratory Arts - The Arts in Primary Healthcare, Tony Blee. EXPERIENCE FROM ABROAD. 15. Creative Arts Opportunities for Hospitals: The UCLA Experiment, Devra M. Breslow, Director, Art That Heals, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Centre, University of California Los Angeles. 16. Building Arts in Medicine, John Graham-Pole, Sidney Homan and Mary T Rockwood Lane, Shands Hospital, Florida. 17. Taking Shape - Environmental Art in Health Care, Janice B Palmer and Florence Nash, Duke University, North Carolina. ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE. 18. Some Questions of Identity: What is Writing in Healthcare?, Fiona Sampson. 19. A Painter's Perspective, Chris Barrett. 20. Writing in Hospices, Lynne Alexander. THE QUALITY OF CARE. 21. Reminiscence Work with Older People in Health Care Settings: The Age Exchange Reminiscence Project, Bernie Arigho, National Reminiscence Co-ordinator, Age Exchange Theatre Trust. 22. The Bolingbroke Long-term Care Project, Peter Millard, Eleanor Peel Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine, St George's Hospital Medical School. 23. The Arts in a Secure Environment, Ruth Preece, Adrian Plant and Brian Chapman. 24. START - The Arts and Mental Health: A Personal View, Langley Brown. 25. Culinary Arts in Health, John Rice. EVALUATION AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES. 26. Does Art Heal? An Evaluative Approach to Art in the Health Service, Malcolm Miles, Associate Senior Lecturer in History and Theory of Art and Design, University of Portsmouth. 27. Evaluating the Arts in Primary Care: The Effectiveness of the Arts in Healthcare, Robin Phillip, Consultant Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol. 28. The Poole Approach to Planetree, Ruth Cusson, Poole Hospital NHS Trust. 29. The Tree of Learning - A Culture for Patient Centred Care, Malcolm Miles.

After reading the articles by thirty-six contributors, I continued to resonate with the editor's purpose: "to produce something that would interest all those who work in the NHS…" (the National Health Service in Britain). That something can be defined as the healing influences of aesthetic expression on the patients, staff and visitors at various health care institutions.