Creating Space for NHS Voices – Creative writing with Frontline Healthcare Workers in the NHS: How emergent collective poems establish new ways of evaluation

This paper investigates the emergent outcomes arising from a co-designed creative writing intervention developed in collaboration with NHS frontline healthcare professionals. We address how this kind of creative writing intervention can both provide the structural framework for the co-design process along with providing a medium for emerging evaluation, where reflection and artistic production are interwoven. We then ask how creative writing practices might generate alternative modalities of documentation and discourse within healthcare settings, offering counterpoints to conventional clinical record-keeping, fostering deeper communication between patients and professionals, and potentially informing future co-designed in-service arts-based staff-s support initiatives for frontline healthcare staff.