Creative Health
Lived experience-led creative advocacy
Working in partnership, our Creative Health projects tackle health inequality in our local community, and have gone on to change practice across the NHS and shape policy nationally.
News, awards and policy developments from our Creative Health work, from immunisation uptake to evidence given in Parliament.
Watch, download and share films, posters and training resources created through our Creative Health projects
When You Know explores the barriers people face giving birth in the asylum system, with reflective questions for health professionals.
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Creative Health Impact
Creative health improvement collaboratives in progress
Cervical Screening for women in the asylum system and with English as an additional language
While 99.8% of cervical cancer occurrences are preventable (Cancer Research UK, 2022), there are broad health disparities in screening rates
Ethnicity is the greatest predictor of low screening rates (NHS, 2014).
Ethnic minority women face many barriers in accessing cervical screening services (Wearn and Shepherd, 2022).
99.8% of cervical cancer cases are preventable with cervical screening according to Cancer Research UK 2022, but only 36% of women with English as an additional language* at Anfield and Everton PCN and 53% of women at Brownlow Health are up to date with their smear tests which increases their risk of cancer diagnosis and death.
* Mother tongue: Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Dari, Farsi, Kurdish, Pashto, Somali, Tigrinya, Urdu
In working together, we aim to understand how to remove barriers to cervical screening and change the attitude of women and healthcare providers to increase uptake for this cohort of women.
Research phase completed and innovation phase September - October 2026.
Sex work trauma and addiction
Sex work trauma and addiction improvement collaborative established
Research phase 2026/27
