GP · Oxford MSc Sleep Medicine · The Sleep Charity
Jonathan Sunkersing
Sleep is the variable that every system - healthcare, business, sport, education - is missing from its equation.
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Insomnia is a disease that needs evidence-based treatment. The £41bn sleep industry isn’t providing one
Essays published throughout the year on sleep medicine, NHS systems, and health equity.
£4.22bn
Annual UK productivity loss from untreated OSA
80%
of OSA cases in the UK remain undiagnosed
60.7
Healthy life expectancy for men in the UK - and falling