Unhurried assessment
Proper time with a sleep clinician, by video. A structured sleep history, validated questionnaires, and a clear explanation of what’s actually going on.
What we’ll offer
Sleep care, taken seriously.
Most sleep problems respond to careful assessment and the right first treatment — not another gadget, and not tablets by default.
CBT‑I, before pills
Cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia is the first‑line treatment recommended by UK guidance. We’ll deliver it one‑to‑one, online, at your pace.
Sleep apnoea testing, at home
A clinically approved home testing device, posted to your door. You sleep in your own bed; a clinician interprets the results and talks them through with you.
Prescribing, with guard‑rails
Where medicines genuinely help: short courses, clear stop dates, and your GP kept informed. Never repeat‑by‑default, never medication as a first resort.
The quiet print
What we won’t do.
- No auto‑renewing prescriptions for sleeping tablets.
- No promising you’ll be cured by Friday.
- No pretending an app can replace a clinician.
And some sleep problems genuinely need a laboratory. In‑lab sleep studies, CPAP set‑up, narcolepsy and complex parasomnias deserve specialist centres — when that’s what you need, we’ll say so plainly and refer you to the right place.
How it will work
Four steps, none of them rushed.
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Tell us about your sleep
A short questionnaire and a sleep diary, completed at your own pace, from home.
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Meet your clinician
An unhurried video consultation to understand your nights — and your days.
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Test at home, if needed
If sleep apnoea is suspected, a home testing device arrives by post. One night, your own bed.
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A plan that fits
CBT‑I, medicines where they’re right, and follow‑up until your sleep holds steady.
Sleep notes
Useful sleep advice, with the evidence left in.
Short, human explanations of what helps sleep, what might be a sleep disorder, and when it is worth asking for proper clinical help. This is general information, not a diagnosis.
Better sleep strategy
The simple sleep reset: make your days steadier, not your nights stricter.
Better sleep usually starts with rhythm. The body is less like a switch and more like a clock: it responds to repeated cues, light, movement, meals, worry, and the way you use your bed.
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Protect a regular wake time. If nights are messy, keep the morning anchor. Sleeping in after a bad night can make the next night harder.
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Spend time outside and move during the day. Daylight and regular activity help strengthen the sleep-wake rhythm.
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Start the landing early. Keep the last hour quieter, dimmer and less work-like; bright screens and stressful tasks are poor bedtime companions.
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Be honest about caffeine and alcohol. Caffeine can linger for hours, and alcohol may make you sleepy while still making sleep more broken.
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Do not force sleep from bed. If you are wide awake, step away for something quiet in low light, then return when sleepy.
Sleep hygiene can support good sleep. For long-running insomnia, though, it is usually not enough by itself. The AASM guideline recommends multicomponent CBT-I for chronic insomnia in adults.
Insomnia
When the bed becomes the battleground.
Insomnia is not just one bad night. It means regularly struggling to fall asleep, waking often, waking too early, or waking unrefreshed and then carrying the cost into the day.
NHS guidance describes short-term insomnia as lasting under three months, and long-term insomnia as three months or more. Stress, anxiety, pain, caffeine, alcohol, shift work and other sleep disorders can all keep it going.
The useful move is to identify what is maintaining the pattern. CBT-I does this directly: it works with sleep timing, bed-sleep associations, anxious thoughts and behaviours around sleep.
Sleep apnoea
Snoring is common. Pauses in breathing are different.
Obstructive sleep apnoea happens when breathing repeatedly stops and starts during sleep. Loud snoring, gasping, choking sounds, witnessed pauses, morning headaches and heavy daytime sleepiness are signals to take seriously.
Many people do not notice the night-time symptoms themselves. A partner’s observation, a sleep diary, and home testing arranged through a sleep service can be much more useful than guessing.
Treatment may involve weight, alcohol and sleep-position changes, but many people need CPAP. Sleeping tablets can make sleep apnoea worse unless a doctor has specifically recommended them.
Different sleep problems
Not every sleep problem is insomnia.
People often use “insomnia” to mean any bad sleep. Clinically, it matters whether the problem is difficulty sleeping, disrupted breathing, an urge to move, nightmares, body-clock timing, or falling asleep during the day.
Restless legs
An urge to move the legs, often with crawling, tingling or aching sensations, worse at rest and at night.
NHS referenceNightmares and night terrors
Nightmares are remembered after waking; night terrors happen in sleep and are often not remembered.
NHS referenceSleep paralysis
Brief inability to move or speak while falling asleep or waking. Frightening, but often harmless.
NHS referenceExcessive sleepiness
Repeatedly falling asleep in the day is different from ordinary tiredness and deserves assessment.
NHS referenceAsk for medical advice if sleep problems have lasted for months, affect your daytime life, involve breathing pauses, cause dangerous sleepiness, or come with distressing movements, dreams or behaviours. If you feel sleepy, do not drive.
Why “Anshino”
Our name is a promise.
Anshino comes from 安心 — “a heart at ease”.
Questions, answered
Before you ask.
When will Anshino open?
We’re completing our registration with the Care Quality Commission, the regulator of health services in England. We’ll open once registration is granted — waitlist members will be the first to know.
Will you be regulated?
Yes. Anshino Ltd is applying to register with the CQC for remote assessment, diagnosis and treatment of adult sleep disorders. We won’t see patients until registration completes — that’s a legal requirement, and the right one.
Who will Anshino be for?
Adults aged 18 and over in England with sleep problems — insomnia, suspected sleep apnoea, disrupted sleep patterns and more. We won’t treat children, and some complex conditions will be referred to specialist sleep centres.
Will you just prescribe sleeping tablets?
No. CBT‑I — a structured talking therapy — is the recommended first treatment for insomnia, and it’s where we’ll start. Where medicines are clinically right, we’ll prescribe short courses with clear stop dates and keep your GP informed.
What will it cost?
We’ll publish clear, fixed prices before we open — no subscriptions you forget about, no surprise extras. Waitlist members will see prices first.
Is everything done remotely?
Yes — consultations by video, questionnaires online, and home sleep apnoea testing by posted device. If you need something a laboratory should do, we’ll refer you to one rather than pretend otherwise.
Be first through the door.
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