This is a perspective on Ridgway et al ‘Creative health a joke or valuable learning experience’.1

Creative health encompasses creative and arts activities that benefit health and well-being.2

The article evaluates a creative health placement designed to facilitate students’ learning about creative health and social prescribing, with opportunities to take part in arts activities.

Creative health placements equip future nurses with knowledge about social prescribing initiatives to offer holistic person-centred care.

The article provides valuable insights into placements that future-proof registrants’ knowledge and skills with the shift towards prevention and a neighbourhood health service.5

Building creative health placements into the curriculum in other institutions will improve access to this valuable learning opportunity.