australia's creative health agency
WE ELEVATE WELLNESS INTO WONDER
We’re not here to fix you. We’re here to ignite you.
Creative Health uses art, music, storytelling, movement, and connection to support wellbeing—before crisis hits. It’s what happens when we treat loneliness with rhythm, anxiety with colour, and burnout with shared expression. From murals in hospitals to music programs in aged care home, Creative Health is already happening across Australia. Together we can build the system to support and scale Creative Agency.
Be part of the shift. Join a growing community of health and arts professionals building the evidence, networks, and practice models that place creativity at the heart of care. Sign up to stay informed and connected.
SO WHAT ARE WE BUILDING?
The Australian Creative Health Agency is a new national initiative that does just that. We’re creating the backbone of a Creative Health system that’s real, recognised, and ready to deliver care across the country.
Here’s what’s coming:
A national quality framework: Co-designed with artists, communities, and health experts to define what safe, ethical creative care looks like.
A practitioner registry: So GPs, health services, and individuals can easily find creative health professionals by location, skill, and lived experience.
Accredited training & micro-credentials: For artists and facilitators wanting to work in health settings—without needing to become clinicians.
Mentoring & peer networks: Because community care starts with supporting the people who deliver it.
A public digital hub: Tools, templates, events, referrals—all in one place, all accessible.
WHY IT MATTERS
We know that the best kind of healthcare doesn’t always have to happen in hospitals.
It can happen in parks, in studios, in community halls—and on stages.
It’s preventative, powerful, and personal.
In fact, Australia’s hospitals, GPs and emergency departments are under immense strain—managing rising mental health presentations, chronic conditions, and a growing loneliness crisis. As reported by the RACGP:
“With more than 80% of Australians visiting a GP each year, primary care is the frontline of support—and the ideal entry point for Social Prescribing.”
— RACGP & ASPIRE, 2024
We have to find better, smarter ways to care for people—ways that work before things break down.
That’s where Creative Health and Social Prescribing come in.
These models are not a soft alternative. They represent a vital shift in how we think about health.
They’re preventative, evidence-informed, and community-connected.
Sometimes, the most powerful health intervention isn’t more medication or a waitlisted appointment—
it’s a moment of reconnection.
A free art class.
A dance lesson.
A local choir.
A mural project.
A reason to leave the house—and a reason to come back next week.
“If we can prescribe antibiotics, we can prescribe belonging.”
— Clinician, Creative Health Roundtable
The future of care isn’t just clinical.
It’s cultural. It’s social.
And it’s already here.