Delegates will come away with an understanding of the high prevalence of insomnia globally, and the benefits to patients’ physical and mental health of treating insomnia directly, including the positive effect of this on other mental health conditions. Clinicians encountering patients suffering from insomnia will now be able to offer them brief, evidence-based psychological interventions, pharmacological treatment where indicated, and better know how and when to refer them onto more formal treatment services. Importantly, delegates will leave with some understanding of key CBT-I techniques (which is more effective than sleep hygiene advice) that they can briefly offer patients, as well as how a formal CBT-I programme could be delivered within their mental health or addictions service.
Additionally, frontline clinicians, clinical leads and service managers will be presented with an example regional insomnia pathway and the tools necessary to create local insomnia pathways that account for their local availability of treatment services.
Learning objectives
By attending this session you will:
- Develop a better understanding of the rationale behind treating insomnia directly, and the evidence-based treatments recommended by bodies such as NICE
- Gain understanding how brief psychological and pharmacological treatments for insomnia can be delivered within mental health and addictions services, and develop some practical knowledge of those treatments
- Gain understanding on how primary and secondary mental health care services can play a role in multi-disciplinary, regional clinical pathways for insomnia, working at the interface with general practice and specialist sleep services.
Speakers
Chair: Dr Hugh Selsick, Sleep Clinic, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London
Dr Rajiv Shah, Sleep Clinic, Royal London Hospital for Integrative Medicine, London
Dr Jacob King, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, London
Dr Lauren Waterman, North London NHS Foundation Trust, London
Availability
This webinar is part of the Congress webinar 2025 package. If you attended all four days of Congress, you will have access to these as part of your Congress package. Otherwise the Congress webinar 2025 package can be purchased below.
