This week Nik Kendrew is joined by Ian Wood & @DrDGavriloff to discuss the #Horizon documentary #HowToSleepWellWithMichaelMosley now on BBC iPlayer . Are we in the middle of a sleep crisis & what treatments are available for our patients? Full episode: buzzsprout.com/1300702/104799…

🤯 This is a big deal. Sleepio is the first-ever digital therapeutic to receive positive guidance from NICE - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Thread below on why this matters for the NHS, Primary Care and the health innovation ecosystem RT for reach! 🧵👇

🚨NICE make their first ever positive recommendation for a digital therapeutic🚨 ⁦Sleepio⁩ heavily evaluated by NICE to be: ✅ Cost saving for the NHS in primary care ✅ Clinically more effective than treatment as usual #TeamGP nice.org.uk/news/article/n…

📱GPs could offer people with insomnia an app based treatment as an alternative to sleeping pills. 🗣️Will Goddard from Big Health which developed the Sleepio app told Clare McDonnell “it’s not only more clinically effective than medication, it’s also cheaper for the NHS."

For the first time a digital therapeutic - (a software delivering a clinical intervention) has received NICE guidance. The evidence base? 28 studies including 12 randomised trials. nice.org.uk/guidance/mtg70

Getting a cancer diagnosis can lead to worrying about many things and issues sleeping. If you are struggling you can get access to Daylight for anxiety and Sleepio for insomnia to help manage your mental health. Thanks to our new partnership with Big Health.

Particularly proud and delighted with this partnership. Cancer tragically touches so many lives and the mental health repercussions can be some of the hardest to deal with. This puts instant access to evidence based treatments straight into the hands who need it

To mark #WorldHepatitisDay, Dr Ian Wood, a GP and @EMISHealth Clinical Director, discusses why the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) goal to eliminate #HepatitisC is about more than just the virus. Read more: bit.ly/3OA5qhu

"We can't wait" for a world free of hepatitis. In his recent blog, Ian Wood, Clinical Director at EMIS and practicing GP talks about how Eliminating Hepatitis C could stop the clock on a health timebomb. Read more here okt.to/xzFg36 #worldhepatitisday #icantwait

If you’ve watched #ThisIsGoingToHurt , you’ll know there is a special tree featured. Now there really is a tree in the grounds of Ealing Hospital as a memorial to all the NHS staff who have died by suicide. May they rest in peace, but never forgotten. Thank you Adam Kay

"We can't wait" for a world free of hepatitis. In his recent blog, Ian Wood, Clinical Director at EMIS and practicing GP talks about how Eliminating Hepatitis C could stop the clock on a health timebomb. Read more here okt.to/3k9CQl #worldhepatitisday #icantwait

If you’ve not seen #AfterLife on Netflix yet, it really is superb. You will laugh & you will cry. Can anyone recommend a guest to come on & talk about the issues it raises and themes it covers, so we can learn as much as possible from it? #TeamGP #PrimaryCareCollective #BDdose

We know that good sleep matters, and at our Stakeholder Forum, there was a lot of excitement around the new sleep app, not only thinking about how we can support our residents, but our workforce too! frimleyhealthandcare.org.uk/sleep Sleepio FrimleyHealth&CareICS Yousaf Ahmad #ConnectedCare

In support of #WorldHepatitisDay, Dr Ian Wood, a GP and Clinical Director at EMIS, explores how harnessing the potential of primary care data could be the key to identifying those at risk of life-threatening conditions: okt.to/7uPrNH #DontMissTheTarget The Hepatitis C Trust

EMIS Academy is our new, free of charge, e-learning platform which allows you to learn in a way that suits you and your busy working life; you can choose the time, location, device of choice and pace of your learning. Sign up to EMIS Academy for free: okt.to/XEKMF2

I’m especially fortunate to work with and learn from Ushma week in week out. For anyone looking to grasp this industry, this market and this problem(!), you won’t find a better write up. Worth taking an extra tea break for!

Time for me to leave this platform, which only saddens me because of how it’s helped me discover the very fine work many colleagues are doing around the world. I’ll be on @drianwood.bsky.social

I'm passionate about providing better care for older patients with difficulties sleeping! 😴 With thanks to Dr Ian Wood of Big Health and Sleepio for co-writing this piece and raising awareness on World Sleep Day.