Our approach: saying 'thank-you' for NHS care, and promoting poetry
In a patient-centred NHS, poetry needs to be patient centred. The readers are patients - the worried well and the worried sick. The poems we use draw from the springs of well-being. In time of trouble, a measure of comfort is welcome The poems cover both the canon of English verse and contemporary works - poetry from Quill to Qwerty.
Our aim is to help form the healing environment. We seek to show gratitude to health service staff for their care, and to promote poetry and poets.
PitWR concentrates on NHS Primary Care (doctors surgeries) as a way of saying 'thank you' for the care given by family doctors up and down the country. This usually neglected sector provides particular advantage for the arts in health. The units are small scale, directly involving of practice staff, whose enthusiasm is a key to success. General practice doctors deal with the public in their daily routine, so benefits flow directly into the community. Further, general practice is diffused throughout every sector of the community. The poetry pamphlets are taken away by patients in the high-rise concrete wilderness as well as in the leafy suburbs. PitWR poetry reaches parts other arts cannot touch.
PitWR also has a scheme specifically designed for hospitals: PitWR for Hospitals.
See comments from readers poets and doctors.
Submit a poem you think we should include.
Make a donation to help our work. Thank you!
Our aim is to help form the healing environment. We seek to show gratitude to health service staff for their care, and to promote poetry and poets.
PitWR concentrates on NHS Primary Care (doctors surgeries) as a way of saying 'thank you' for the care given by family doctors up and down the country. This usually neglected sector provides particular advantage for the arts in health. The units are small scale, directly involving of practice staff, whose enthusiasm is a key to success. General practice doctors deal with the public in their daily routine, so benefits flow directly into the community. Further, general practice is diffused throughout every sector of the community. The poetry pamphlets are taken away by patients in the high-rise concrete wilderness as well as in the leafy suburbs. PitWR poetry reaches parts other arts cannot touch.
PitWR also has a scheme specifically designed for hospitals: PitWR for Hospitals.
See comments from readers poets and doctors.
Submit a poem you think we should include.
Make a donation to help our work. Thank you!
