The Creative Community Output Collective

• Lead: Stephanie Gillibrand, University of Manchester

This community output project is building on two current projects on community experiences and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

We seek to utilise these themes generated from the research to form the basis of material for a co-created booklet, a ‘zine’.  

 Alongside this zine, we also plan to do an audio-visual piece. We will work with local performing arts charity, Young Identity, and public contributors to collectively write a piece of spoken word/poetry based on the insights from the research and taking inspiration from the stories from the ‘zine’. This will be done via a poetry writing workshop hosted by Young Identity, with diverse local community groups and young people. We will record the final piece as an audio/visual piece, to be used as both a dissemination and wider engagement tool whereby a poet will perform the piece at a launch event of the creative communities workstream. This poetry piece will give local communities the opportunity to raise awareness of public health issues that are important to them in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic, to lay-out their priorities for their own healthcare needs and priorities going forward.

 We will do a launch event at a local community arts-venue, which will seek to bring together local decision makers, including NHS system representatives, local GPs and primary care staff, and  researchers to a) identify ways in which primary care and the wider health system can support local communities in light of exacerbated health inequalities after the covid-19 pandemic b) identify ways in which local communities can have their health needs met by primary care c) identify future research priorities in this area d)research additional under-served groups

 This project aims to:

• Develop a fora for feeding back public health priorities, relevant to primary care and other prevention-based healthcare services such as screenings and vaccination programmes, to reduce health inequalities

• Generate findings relevant to primary care to inform future research priorities for primary care service delivery considering the covid-recovery support programmes relevant to primary care, 

• Test creative approaches for reaching additional under-served communities from areas of high deprivation

• Support relationships and outreach networks between local communities, the third sector and primary care infrastructure, to support the overall NHS goal of helping to work more closely with voluntary and community groups to improve the health of under-served communities.