Symposium session: Treating sleep in a health system under pressure: novel solutions from allied health and primary care
Tracks
Track 4
| Saturday, October 19, 2024 |
| 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM |
| Room 6 |
Details
The increasing incidence of sleep disorders in Australia, workforce shortages, and public resource limitations have resulted in a health system under strain to provide timely, efficient, and high-quality care to Australians with sleep disorders. Novel solutions are needed to improve access and reduce costs for consumers. Allied health and primary care workforces are well-placed to face this challenge through innovative practice approaches including digital therapies, and full or extended scope of practice allied health models. This symposium will discuss new approaches to sleep health care in the community, through digital CBTi in primary care and community pharmacist input on quality use of sleep medicines. Novel hospital outpatient approaches will be discussed, including direct access to behavioural sleep medicine intervention, and a model of extended scope of practice for sleep psychologists to deprescribe hypnotics during CBTi intervention, and prescribe melatonin as adjunct to behavioural therapies for circadian rhythm disorders.
Speaker
Dr Hailey Meaklim
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Melbourne
Chair: Introduction
3:45 PM - 3:50 PMBiography
Dr Daniel Sullivan
Research Fellow | Senior Psychologist
University of Queensland / The Prince Charles Hospital
Expanding psychology scope of practice into pharmacotherapies, emphasising deprescribing during behavioural treatment of sleep (ExPEDiTe Sleep): An Australian-first model of extended scope behavioural sleep care
3:50 PM - 4:05 PMBiography
Dr Daniel Sullivan is a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland and a Senior Psychologist (Sleep Disorders) at The Prince Charles Hospital. Dr Sullivan leads the ExPEDiTe Sleep project to investigate extending psychologist scope of practice to deprescribe hypnotics and to prescribe melatonin alongside behavioural sleep medicine interventions. At UQ, he is a member of the Let’s Yarn About Sleep team, working on MRFF/NHMRC funded projects to improve sleep health equity for First Nations Australians. Dr Sullivan completed his MSc in Sleep Medicine at the University of Sydney, and PhD in Clinical Psychology at Griffith University.
Ms Stacey Putland
Project Manager
Australasian Sleep Association
Upskilling community pharmacists in the Quality Use of Medicines for Insomnia and Sleep Health (QUMISH)
4:05 PM - 4:20 PMBiography
Stacey is a credentialled pharmacist and project manager with the Australasian Sleep Association leading the Quality Use of Medicines for Insomnia and Sleep Health (QUMISH) grant program. She has 10 years’ experience across a diverse range of pharmacy settings including community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, aged care and university-based training. She is passionate about the role that pharmacists can play in facilitating evidenced-based non-pharmacological approaches to insomnia, pain and psychological distress, to support quality use of medicines in the community and residential aged care.
Dr Alexander Sweetman
Senior Program Manager
Australasian Sleep Association
Digital Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Insomnia (dCBT-i) in general practice
4:20 PM - 4:35 PMBiography
Dr Sweetman is a Senior Program Manager and chair of the psychologist education subcommittee at the Australasian Sleep Association, and has Academic Status at Flinders University. He is interested in improving management of insomnia, and co-morbid insomnia and sleep apnoea.
Dr Sara Winter
Clinical Psychologist
The Prince Charles Hospital / Queensland Health
Direct to sleep psychology: A full-scope of practice model of behavioural sleep care for medically uncomplicated insomnia referrals
4:35 PM - 4:50 PMBiography
Sara Winter is a Clinical Psychologist of over 18 years' experience as a Clinician and Researcher with a special interest in sleep disorders and behavioural sleep medicine. Her primary current research interests are in the behavioural management of sleep disorders, treatment adherence and implementation science/service model redesign. Sara completed her PhD in the area of sleep disorders and health behaviour change, and completed her clinical training at the University of Queensland in the area of Clinical and Neuro Psychology.
Sara’s national level committee membership with the Australasian Sleep Association is congruent with her Vision to contribute to improving population health by developing and refining behavioural sleep medicine practice guidelines, and through education and upskilling of primary care and community-based practitioners in behavioural sleep medicine.
