Welcome to the OpenArtSurgery - ONLINE Health Promotion Gallery

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Welcome to the OpenArtSurgery - ONLINE Health Promotion Gallery 〰️

Why?

Through the lens of Art as Therapy & the 5 Ways to Wellbeing, art has helped us to notice, learn, connect, be active and give.

This site has been a place to help me notice & make progress each year.

Now we want to go further…

For years, many General Practices have had to focus on survival, as noted in this article from 2017 in The Guardian and the King’s Fund position statement.

NHS care is supposed to be based on health need, and yet in areas of deprivation, for years, the funding has cover even less of the workload. Leading to recruitment & retention probelms, affecting patient outcomes.

Despite these pressures, the nearby practice closures and the pandemic, we still believe in the value of General Practice and want to make it even better. Woodingdean Medical Centre continues to innovate and make progress, but it is not easy.

For our patients and teams, we want to help Woodingdean Medical Centre and Brighton&Hove general practice, Networks and the NHS not only survive, but flourish despite NHS funding issues.

This takes more innovation & funding…

Can we build projects that can promote health, raise funds and provide more & sustainable services for patients with a more manageable workload for staff and improved NHS care?

How?

By finding ways for a worldwide audience to be able to contribute funds while also benefiting from the projects.

OpenArtSurgery Ltd (OAS - a not-for-profit company) is creating projects & art installations
that combine health promotion & fund-raising.
These early versions are demonstrators of concepts to lead to collaborations & pilots, to study their benefits and impact.

We want Woodingdean Medical Centre (WMC) to become the first General practice in England, to use Serious Games (Wikipedia) & Art, for health promotion and fund-raising, to enable the provision of more services & equipment for patients, with a more manageable workload for staff and improved care.

Then expand to our Primary Care Network and beyond.

What?

We are at the very early stages of testing.

The OpenArtSurgery opened its ONLINE Health Promotion GALLERY in May 2022 to bring together & exhibit serious games & art installations.

There you can visit a virtual WMC, with installations showing the works under development that need your feedback and support.

Test, review & donate to the simple health promotion games
Review - art installation ideas - see 10 Billion Squames as an example of future works.
Donate to take part & encourage us

We are working on a shoe-string of funds & time (as no NHS funds or time are being used), so these early versions (linked below) are only demonstrators of concepts to start the ball rolling to generate interest & funding.

We were part of the Brighton & Hove Artists Open House (AOH) - online - where Woodingdean Medical Centre becomes the OpenArtSurgery gallery the the theme of “Preventing Heart Disease and Strokes”, share the early ideas, get your feedback to steer us and start to crowdfund the ideas that you want us to progress.

See AOH Brochure page - ONLINE ONLY gallery

You can support the ideas through donations

You can shape the ideas through feedback and contributions.