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| Background | Review of Current Practice | Sleep Assessment | Sleep Management Tools & Techniques | Hypnotic Withdrawal Programme | Sleep Consultation | Final Assessment | Contact Us |
| Section home → | Benefits for patients & → practitioners | Hypnotic prescribing → | Patient & practitioner → views | How we developed → the evidence | Self Assessment |
Patient and GP surveys
→ Inappropriate and long term prescribing
→ GPs motivated to improve sleep management
Interviews of patients and clinicians
→ Patients’ and clinicians’ perspectives of the consultation for insomnia
Practice collaboratives
→ Practices piloted tools and techniques and developed the new philosophy and processes for management of insomnia
The evidence presented in this package was developed by patients, nurses and GPs as part of the REST project.
→ Patient and GP surveys showed widespread evidence of inappropriate, long term prescribing of hypnotics by GPs.
→ GPs were unhappy with their current management of sleep problems and motivated to improve sleep management.
→ Interviews of patients and clinicians helped us to understand patients’ and clinicians’ perspectives of the consultation for insomnia.
→ We worked with a Quality Improvement Collaborative group of general practices where GPs and nurses piloted the tools and techniques and developed the new philosophy and process for management of insomnia.
Here are some of the practitioners involved in the REST collaborative.
