title: Guidance on future art commissioning.
abstract: Delegates at Building Better Healthcare's recent "National Patient Environment and the Arts Conference 2009" in London heard how national public arts think tank ixia has appointed Bristol-based arts and wellbeing development agency Willis Newson to write "concise and convincing guidance" on commissioning art for new healthcare facilities. A key message, during a joint presentation, was that integrating artwork into hospitals and other healthcare premises requires the earliest possible consideration to reap the maximum rewards.
mesh_terms: D001154:Art; D032982:Contracts; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom