Sleep and sleep hygiene for healthcare professionals
This session provides an overview of good sleep hygiene principles and explores how poor sleep can affect daytime function both physiologically and psychologically.
Participants will develop confidence in supporting sensitive and professional conversations around relationships, intimacy, and sleep. The session equips attendees with practical, evidence-based advice to help improve sleep outcomes in a range of settings.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the principles of good sleep hygiene.
- Recognise how poor sleep affects daytime function physiologically and psychologically.
- Understand the role of the physical sleep environment in promoting quality sleep.
- Have an awareness of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) and when this might be appropriate.
- Support conversations about relationships, intimacy, and sleep sensitively and professionally.
- Provide practical, evidence-based sleep advice.
Meet our Experts
Jenny is a senior occupational therapist. She qualified in 1997 and completed her MSc in Neuro-rehabilitation in 2007. She has worked in Neurological Rehabilitation at the Battle Hospital in Reading, and the Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre in Oxford which became part of the Oxford Centre for Enablement in 2000. She moved into the Specialist Disability Service at the OCE from where she joined the Oxford MND Centre in January 2007.
Since August 2009 Jenny has been funded full-time by the Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association to develop NHS wheelchair services across the UK, to improve wheelchair provision for people living with MND.
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