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This year’s British Sleep Society (BSS) conference, held in Brighton at the Hilton Metropole, featured an invited presentation from Prof Niro Siriwardena, director of CaHRU, entitled ‘Tribulations and trials in primary care insomnia’. After a welcome to the conference by Continue reading ‘Tribulations and trials in primary care insomnia’ at BSS 2017
I have been working on sleep and health for around 7 years now. When I first started there was very little interest. A clinician, on a national funding committee, said to me “why are you worried? Sleep is natural…” I Continue reading Research on health effects of sleep features in BBC1 documentary ‘The truth about…sleep’
Graham Law, appointed Professor of Medical Statistics, joined the School of Health and Social Care in February 2017. He has worked for 23 years in medical and healthcare research and student education. He has published many papers and books in Continue reading Professor Graham Law joins the School of Health and Social Care and CaHRU as Professor of Medical Statistics
HAVING TROUBLE SLEEPING? WOULD YOU LIKE TO SLEEP BETTER? The Oxford Access for Students Improving Sleep (OASIS) study offers an effective state of the art sleep improvement programme to all students who take part. This involves a 6 week course Continue reading Are you a student having trouble sleeping? Would you like to sleep better?
The Resources for Effective Sleep Treatment (REST) project featured in the Health Foundation’s recent newsletter, ‘Stories of outstanding impact in primary care‘. The REST project is an ongoing area of research within the Quality and Outcomes in Primary Healthcare group Continue reading CaHRU’s REST project features in Health Foundation’s stories of outstanding impact in primary care