26isfam054 10.3205/26isfam054 urn:nbn:de:0183-26isfam0540 Meeting Abstract Stubbe Stubbe Janine J

Codarts and Erasmus University Rotterdam

author German Medical Science GMS Publishing House

Düsseldorf

610 20260612 engl This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Dieser Artikel ist ein Open-Access-Artikel und steht unter den Lizenzbedingungen der Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (Namensnennung). M0652 054 International Society for Arts and Medicine The Healing Arts – Forging Alliances of Arts & Medicine Presentation Abstracts Berlin 20260618 20260620 26isfam054 TextBackground: In 2024, a broad coalition of Dutch organizations developed the Whitepaper Arts in Health Netherlands, identifying fragmentation, limited long-term funding and the absence of structural policy as key barriers to the sustainable embedding of arts in healthcare. In 2025, the alliance initiated an implementation phase to operationalize this agenda across practice, policy, education and research.Objectives: To contribute to and present the emerging national infrastructure that aims to embed arts in health structurally across healthcare, culture and education systems, and to share early insights from the implementation process.Methods: The alliance has adopted a multi-sector governance model with four interconnected work packages. Implementation activities include system mapping, expert consultations, development of descriptive models for sustainable practice, and the initiation of national knowledge structures.Results: Early outcomes include:a functional cross-sector governance structureongoing descriptive modelling work to identify conditions that support sustainable arts in health practice across hospitals, long-term care and social caregrowing alignment with national policy domains (health, culture, education);strengthened research coordination and the development of a national knowledge infrastructure;initial commitments from partner organizations to pilot and refine the model in practice.Conclusion: The Dutch approach illustrates how a national alliance can transition from agenda-setting to system-level implementation. While building on work initiated by the original Whitepaper team, the ongoing implementation phase offers transferable lessons for countries seeking sustainable integration of arts in health. 0 0 0 0