NHS Scotland has recently partnered with Big Health to provide free access to Sleepio and Daylight for all health and care staff to help protect their mental health throughout the COVID-19 response.

You can find information on the programmes and how to access them below:

Sleepio

Sleepio is a highly personalised, digital sleep improvement programme based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), that gets to the root of stubborn poor sleep. Sleepio users interact with The Prof, their virtual sleep expert, who teaches them evidence-based skills via 6 weekly video sessions. Sleepio is backed by clinical evidence, including 12 published RCTs and 37 published papers.

Visit www.sleepio.com/healthandcare-scot from a computer or laptop to access Sleepio.

Daylight

Daylight is an app that will teach you ways to manage worry and anxiety in your life. Through cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques Daylight offers audio-led guidance tailored to your unique problematic thoughts, behaviours, and responses to worry and anxiety. The programme introduces you to a range of techniques and guides you through daily practice sessions.

Visit http://trydaylight.com/healthandcare-scot to access Daylight.

If you have any technical questions on the programmes, please reach out to [email protected] or [email protected]

We very much hope you find the programmes useful, and that they can offer you some relief in this difficult time.

The team at Luminate, Scotland’s creative ageing organisation, have worked with artists from all over Scotland to create a series of 30 films aimed at older people.  The artists all work regularly with older people in care homes and in community settings, and they have transferred their usual face-to-face approaches to offer creative activities on film for older people to do at home or in a care home.  Activities include craft, poetry, music and dance, and range from a 1960s seated dance workshop and a drumming session using kitchen utensils, to craft activities using recycled materials.  The drumming film, as well as 3 singing films, all have accompaniment tracks that you can download and use in your care home.

The films and soundtracks are available on Luminate’s website at https://luminatescotland.org/luminateathome.

The Luminate team are now making future plans, and – if you try any of the films – they’d really appreciate it if you could spare a few minutes to give them some feedback.  Their short online survey is at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/LatHome, and there’s a chance to be entered into a prize draw to win a £50 book token!

Luminate@Home is supported by Baillie Gifford, co-produced by Graeme Roger, and presented in partnership with Scottish Care

Today (29 June), Faith in Older People are launching an online Listening and Caring in Confidence service for care home and care at home staff.  Bookings are online and the service is provided by trained and experienced listeners also online.  FiOP feels strongly about the importance of supporting these staff at all times but particularly in the light of the impact of the Coronavirus.

Further to the revised guidance for investigating Covid-19 deaths from the Lord Advocate. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) have issued a letter with further information on how these investigations will be carried out.

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Please see below for letter from the Chief Nursing Officer and the Interim Chief Medical Officer on the Covid-19 Interim Guidance on the wider use of face masks and face coverings in health and social care.

The guidance can be found here.