After a non-committal appraisal of Big Health's Sleepio app for insomnia last November in draft guidance from NICE, the cost-effectiveness agency has come out in favour of the digital therapy.

The study – published in the journal Behaviour Research and Therapy – tested the Sleepio app developed by digital health specialist Big Health as an add-on to standard NHS care for anxiety and ...

Research found that Sleepio, a six-week digital sleep treatment, helped people with insomnia gain almost six extra hours of sleep a week, as well as reducing the intake of sleeping pills, time off ...