Exploring a dance health model for Scotland
- Area of Work: The ALLIANCE
- Type: News Item
- Published: 20th June 2025
Social prescribing - Enhancing lives through dance health.
Scottish Ballet’s health initiative aligns with Scottish Government’s ‘Realistic Medicine’ approach, acknowledging that there are many circumstances where a non-medical intervention may support a range of well being outcomes with low risk.
They offer a range of pathways and access into and out of healthcare and community settings and welcome enquiries and signposting from health professionals alongside ongoing self-referral.
“Scottish Ballet are at the forefront of this exciting network and their Dance for Parkinson’s class is an excellent example of how the arts can contribute meaningfully to improve people’s experience of chronic disease, whilst also improving social contact.”
Realistic Medicine — Taking Care, Chief Medical Officer for Scotland Annual Report 23-24
From 2022 Scottish Ballet delivered a strategic three year project in collaboration with the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland to explore pathways that seek to place our dance health neurological programmes into mainstream health and social care settings.
The aim of the project was to explore the steps required to embed Scottish Ballet’s three neurological dance health programmes within mainstream health and social care, so that more people living with neurological conditions in Scotland, and their families, can access our evidence-based support
You can read the full report on the Scottish Ballet website.
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