Preventive Medicine: Arts
2026-07-12 · Department of Health and Social Care · HL1977 · Official question
Question
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to maximise the contribution of dance and the arts to the NHS prevention programme, including through collaboration between the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department of Health
Answer
Dance is recognised within the Chief Medical Officer’s Guidelines on Physical Activity as a form of physical activity that can improve health at every stage of the life course. Dance is a broad discipline of creative activity from ballet to street dance, ...