West Yorkshire Creative Health System

Hub-and-Spoke Model

Our Hub‑and‑Spoke model brings together the National Creative Health Hub with a network of locally embedded spokes to support the system development of Creative Health at a region-wide level. The Hub provides strategic coordination, shared evaluation frameworks, workforce development and cross‑sector knowledge and cultural exchange, enabling evidence‑building and advocacy across the system. The spokes are place-based and led by different sectors, including local authorities, health services, cultural organisations and communities. This ensures that local needs are aligned with a shared regional vision and priorities. Taken together, the Hub‑and‑Spoke approach enables Creative Health to move from fragmented, short‑term projects to a coordinated, sustainable and evidence‑informed system. 

Capabilities Framework

Our Capabilities Framework for Evaluation supports the collection of creative health case studies that align with capabilities development. It brings together qualitative and quantitative evidence across four connected domains: work and learning, health and vitality, relationships, and community.

The framework helps us capture and curate stories of lived experience, practice, impact and change from creative health activity, turning these into clear, comparable narratives that can be used locally and at wider regional, national and international levels. This approach ensures that individual and collective experiences are evidenced as meaningful contributions to health, wellbeing, culture and inclusive growth.

You can find more detail in A Capabilities Framework for Gathering and Evaluating Creative Health. We are currently gathering case studies that align with this framework. If you are interested in finding out more or contributing, please get in touch with us: creativehealthhub@hud.ac.uk