Réalta was thrilled to be in Belfast recently for the launch of the PAINT Policy Brief – Recommendations for Arts in Renal Care.
For two years, Réalta has been a partner on the PAINT Project, a research project which involved the global mapping of arts interventions in renal care. Led by the Renal Arts Group at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), other partners included the World Health Organisation (WHO), The Center for Arts in Medicine at the University of Florida and Consultant Nephrologist Dr Mayleen Laico from Chong Hua Hospital, Philippines.
The PAINT Policy Brief recommends growing the evidence base to demonstrate the value of arts activities during renal treatment; identifying arts champions within renal settings; mapping existing provision and developing collaborations across the world.
A huge thank you to our partners on this project and especially the team at QUB, Prof Helen Noble, Dr Trisha Forbes and Anna Wilson. We look forward to seeing the impact of these recommendations as we work towards embedding arts in healthcare.
The full research paper A Multi-Method International Mapping Exercise of Arts Interventions in Renal Units: The PAINT Project was published recently in the Nephron Journal. Further information about the research project, and the PAINT Policy Brief – Recommendations for Arts in Renal Care can be read here: https://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/renal-arts-group/Research/PAINTProject/
Photo: Pictured at the launch of the PAINT Policy Brief at Queens University Belfast (QUB) were (l-r) Prof Helen Noble, QUB; William Johnston, poet & renal dialysis patient; Claire Meaney, Director of Réalta; Jim McCaughan, Chair of the Northern Ireland Kidney Research Fund; Dr Trisha Forbes, Research Fellow at QUB; Stephen Greer, Renal Arts Group/Prison Arts Foundation; Joe Brennan, Storyteller with the Waterford Healing Arts programme (part of Realta); NIKRB Representative; Megan Raynor, poet/PhD Student/kidney transplant patient; Dr Claire Carswell, University of York; Anna Wilson, QUB.
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