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Journal Article
Insomnia: NICE recommends digital app as treatment option
2022
Overview
GPs should consider offering patients with insomnia the Sleepio app as an effective and cost saving alternative to sleeping pills, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended.1 The app will also reduce patients’ reliance on drugs such as zolpidem and zopiclone that can be dependence forming, said NICE’s medical technologies advisory committee. A data analysis of primary care use, before and after Sleepio was introduced in nine general practices, found that healthcare costs were lower at one year, mainly because of fewer GP appointments and sleeping pills prescribed. Jeanette Kusel, acting director for med tech and digital at NICE, said, “Until now people with insomnia have been offered sleeping pills and taught about sleep hygiene, so our committee’s recommendation of Sleepio provides GPs and their patients with a new treatment option.
