New Training and Education Film Launched by UoG and NHS Gloucestershire
A new training film jointly commissioned by University of Gloucestershire and NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (ICB) providing insight around approaches and provoking discussion between health and social care professionals and patients, has premiered in Gloucester.
‘Risking Happiness 2’ features contributions from NHS staff and social care providers working on the frontline across a range of disciplines, generously sharing their experiences and approaches to making potentially life-saving decisions within high-pressure environments in a person-centred way.
A memorable character in the 15-minute film is an 83-year-old patient called Ted – a paper mache puppet – whose personal health challenges provide a platform for healthcare professionals to discuss the daily challenges they face in their roles when faced with the dilemma of meeting a person’s medical and social needs.
‘Risking Happiness 2’ will be used in student and staff training and education programmes, as well as workshops across health, social care and voluntary and community organisations across Gloucestershire, taking new approaches to delivering better health outcomes, using a personalised approach.
Created and produced by local film maker and artist Emma Cleasby from Reckless Kettle, supported by students from the School of Creative Arts and the Diverse Ethnic Research Alliance (DERA), ‘Risking Happiness 2’ will stimulate learning and conversations, and promote a supportive culture change regarding positive risk taking, within health and social care settings.
The film premiered at the Sherbourne Cinema in Gloucester to a VIP audience of health, education, and voluntary and community sector leaders as part of the University’s collaborative partnership with NHS Gloucestershire ICB.
The Arts, Health and Wellbeing Centre is the flagship of the partnership between the University and NHS Gloucestershire ICB. Currently a virtual facility, the centre will be based within the heart of Gloucester’s community at the University’s City Campus, which will open in a phased way in 2025.
The centre will facilitate ground-breaking research, support practice innovation and improvement, whilst delivering social prescribing and Creative Health intervention-based projects that test and improve current and future approaches to health across the life course.
Amabel Mortimer, University of Gloucestershire’s Strategic Lead and Programme Director for Arts, Health and Wellbeing, said: “’Risking Happiness 2’ demonstrates the shared passion, effectiveness, and impact of our important cross-sector partnerships between One Gloucestershire’s NHS, the Voluntary and Community sector and Higher Education.
“Our health and social care, colleagues make difficult and potentially life-saving decisions to deliver personalised health outcomes to individuals and communities across Gloucestershire to the best of their abilities in often highly stressful situations.
“Risking Happiness 2 supports the vital work of our current and future health and social care professionals, providing them with renewed confidence and reassurance to carry out their roles within a supportive and proactive culture.”
Ellen Rule, Deputy CEO/Director of Strategy and Transformation at NHS Gloucestershire ICB, said: “Risking Happiness 2 provides an insightful and innovative way for us to approach a sensitive topic together, in a supportive way, with staff, patients and carers who work and live in our integrated care system.
“It showcases the best of partnership working and how creative arts can help us to address some of the most complex challenges facing health and care systems today.”
‘Risking Happiness 2’ is a follow-up to ‘Risking Happiness’ jointly commissioned by Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning group (predecessor organisation to NHS Gloucestershire) and Gloucestershire County Council.
