We have extensive experience of the diagnosis and full range of treatments of neurological sleep disorders such as narcolepsy, nocturnal seizures, periodic limb movements of sleep, non-REM and REM-parasomnias, and in the differential diagnosis of nocturnal or sleep related paroxysmal attacks.
Please note that patients with insomnia should be referred to the sleep services at RLHIM, patients with suspected obstructive sleep apnoea should be referred to the sleep respiratory service and patients with snoring to the ENT snoring and sleep disorder clinic.
The services include outpatient clinics as well as in-patient overnight sleep studies polysomnography , daytime tests for evaluation of excessive somnolence and home studies using Actigraphy. For your first appointment it is often helpful to bring your bed partner or someone else who may have additional information on your sleep and events during sleep.
Please bring a list of your medications and completed questionnaire or sleep diary that you may have been sent. Following your appointment you may be referred for an inpatient sleep study but people are usually not admitted on the day of their outpatient appointment but will return for this at a later date.
After your sleep study you will be seen for a follow up appointment to go through the results. Professor Matthew Walker.
