Professor Colin Espie from Big Health on the Sleepio and Daylight apps being offered by NHS Scotland

23/12/2021 22 min

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Episode Synopsis

Carmen Paputa-Dutu, the Digital Health and Care National Lead for the ALLIANCE, speaks to Professor Colin Espie, founder of Big Health and Professor of Sleep Medicine at the University of Oxford, about Sleepio and Daylight. 
Sleepio (designed to support those suffering with insomnia) and Daylight (created to support those facing anxiety) are two apps that NHS Scotland will be offering free of charge for people in Scotland, making it the first country in the world to offer digital therapeutics for anxiety and insomnia nationally. 
Professor Espie is one of the world’s leading experts on sleep and mental health, and he’s currently shedding an urgent light on the connection between lack of sleep/ insomnia issues and the mental health problems the UK currently faces.

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