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Health visitor-run adult sleep clinics

Nursing StandardPublished 23 June 1999
Evelyn Ballantine, Eleanor Clark, Catherine Abdel-Fattah, E Richam-Odoi, Helen Fulford, FM McPherson
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TL;DR

Two sleep clinics set up in Dundee to provide a brief programme of advice and treatment for adults with insomnia and referred by their GPs are described and the clinical features and outcome of the first 100 patients referred are reported.

Abstract

Two sleep clinics run by health visitors were set up in Dundee to provide a brief, time-limited programme of advice and treatment for adults with insomnia and referred by their GPs. This article describes the clinics and reports the clinical features and outcome of the first 100 patients referred.

Keywords

Health Professions