PERSONAL VIEW Francesco P Cappuccio, Steven W Lockley

Interest, curiosity, or dismay—which feeling predominates when we learn from BBC Newsnight that our NHS employs doctors who commute from Poland to cover the out of hours duties that local GPs are unable to work because they are too tired at night? Is it interest in an innovative solution for modern pan-European healthcare provision, curiosity in discovering huge variations in the standard of living across the medical profession in an open Europe, or dismay that the government’s emphasis, that healthcare practice should be based on the best scientific evidence, is little more than lip service?

  In Britain we now get less than seven hours of sleep a night on average and for many of us it's taking a toll.   There is a clear connection between sleep and health, sleep deprivation and disease .....   Readers Digest Article

British researchers found that among more than 10,000 adults who were followed for five years, women who routinely slept for six hours or less were more likely than their well-rested counterparts to develop high blood pressure