Why are so many health organisations funding art projects and what can artists and scientists gain from close collaboration?

An interesting article by Laura Barnett, Guardian Professional

Read it here: http://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2014/jan/20/art-health-science-culture-medicine?CMP=twt_gu

Art meets science: a work from The Romantic

Disease by artist Anna Dumitriu. Photograph: Watermans