Sleep and Snoring
Precision testing, expert guidance and support to restore your sleep to what it should be.
- Sleep Apnoea & Snoring
Snoring is not
just noise.
It may be the first
sign of something
more serious.
Obstructive sleep apnoea affects your heart, blood pressure and ability to function. Grace Sleep diagnoses and treats it from your own home, anywhere in the UK, with specialist-reviewed results within 48 hours. No referral needed.
48h
Results turnaround
98%
Patient satisfaction
Home
No hospital stay needed
GMC
Registered specialists
- Why it matters
Most people dismiss
their snoring.
Snoring happens when the airway partially collapses during sleep, causing turbulent airflow and tissue vibration in the upper respiratory tract. In many cases it is simple primary snoring — disruptive, but not medically dangerous on its own.
But in a significant proportion of people who snore loudly, wake unrefreshed, or feel exhausted during the day, snoring is a symptom of obstructive sleep apnoea — a condition in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts throughout the night, fragmenting sleep and placing sustained stress on the cardiovascular system.
Untreated obstructive sleep apnoea is associated with substantially elevated risks of hypertension, atrial fibrillation, heart failure, type 2 diabetes, and cognitive impairment. It also significantly impairs daytime performance, mood, and relationship quality.
The good news is that obstructive sleep apnoea is highly treatable. An accurate diagnosis from home is the first step — and it takes less than 48 hours.
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Tell us about your symptoms — including the Epworth and STOP-BANG screening tools — so we match you to the right diagnostic pathway first time. No wasted tests.
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Clinically validated home sleep monitoring equipment posted directly to your door, anywhere in the UK. No hospital. No overnight stay. No commute.
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A GMC-registered sleep physician reviews your data. You receive a detailed written report — confirmed diagnosis or exclusion, AHI score, oxygen data, and a personalised treatment plan.
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Whether you need CPAP, a mandibular device, positional therapy, or lifestyle intervention, we remain with you through treatment — not just testing.
- The clinical reality
What untreated sleep apnoea actually does.
Obstructive sleep apnoea is not simply an inconvenience. Its consequences — left untreated — accumulate over years and affect nearly every system in the body.
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Each apnoea event causes a transient spike in blood pressure. Over thousands of events per night, repeated across years, this substantially elevates the risk of sustained hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and heart failure. OSA is now recognised as an independent cardiovascular risk factor.
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Fragmented sleep — even when the sleeper is unaware — impairs memory consolidation, working memory, executive function, and reaction time. Many patients describe years of progressive “brain fog” before diagnosis. In older patients, untreated OSA is associated with an accelerated risk of dementia.
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OSA is closely linked to depression, anxiety, and low mood — often because the patient does not understand why they are exhausted and struggling to cope. Treating the sleep disorder frequently produces substantial improvement in mood that antidepressants alone could not achieve.
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Excessive daytime sleepiness is the most common presenting complaint in people with OSA. It affects work, relationships, and safety — including a significantly elevated risk of road traffic accidents. Many patients are unaware how impaired they have become until they experience restorative sleep for the first time.
The average time from first symptom to diagnosis for obstructive sleep apnoea in the UK is over seven years. A Grace Sleep home study can change that — in 48 hours.
- What we optimise
Five areas.
One integrated plan.
Your SleepImage data is integrated with a personalised optimisation plan that addresses the five key dimensions of sleep quality. Every recommendation is grounded in your assessment — not generic sleep advice.
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Improving the depth and stability of your light sleep, deep sleep, and REM sleep to enhance recovery, cognition, and mood. Sleep architecture is the structure of your night — and the quality of that structure determines how restored you feel in the morning. We identify where your architecture is deficient and address the specific factors responsible.
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Supporting your internal body clock through timing strategies, light exposure, and behavioural cues to restore a healthy sleep–wake cycle. Circadian misalignment — common in those with irregular schedules, late-night screen exposure, or shift patterns — reduces sleep quality even when total sleep time is adequate. Correcting it produces some of the most rapid improvements in how people feel.
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Reducing night-time awakenings, improving sleep onset, and strengthening the continuity of your sleep so you wake feeling genuinely restored. Even brief or unremembered awakenings across the night are sufficient to degrade the restorative quality of sleep. We identify the pattern and address the cause — whether behavioural, physiological, or environmental.
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Sleep plays a central role in glucose regulation, appetite control, inflammation, and physical recovery. We integrate insights from Grace Metabolic to help you optimise sleep in a way that supports your wider health goals — whether that is body composition, athletic performance, cognitive function, or long-term health. Sleep and metabolic health are inseparable and we address them together.
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Adjusting the elements that influence sleep quality — evening routines, nutrition timing, stress load, temperature, light, and digital habits — to create meaningful improvements in how deeply and consistently you sleep. These changes are specific to your assessment data and your life, not a list of generic recommendations that most people already know and ignore.
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Everything in your programme follows from what your SleepImage assessment reveals. The five pillars provide the framework — your data determines which areas matter most for you, and by how much.
- What you achieve
What sleep optimisation helps you reach.
The improvements from a well-designed sleep optimisation programme extend across every dimension of daily function. These are the outcomes our patients consistently report.
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Greater slow-wave sleep — the most physically restorative stage — for improved cellular repair, immune function, and morning recovery.
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Improved REM sleep for memory consolidation, emotional regulation, creativity, and cognitive clarity. The stage most people are unwittingly shortchanging.
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Waking feeling genuinely alert — not requiring caffeine to function — as a result of more efficient, continuous, and appropriately timed sleep.
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Faster physical and cognitive recovery from training, demanding work, or illness. Sleep is where adaptation happens — optimised sleep accelerates it.
- Your diagnostic pathways
Three ways
to get your diagnosis.
Choose the level of support that suits you. All pathways include home equipment delivery and a written results report. You can add consultant review at any point.
£200
Home Sleep Study — Test Only
- Symptom questionnaire to select the correct test
- Clinically validated equipment posted to your door
- Full physiologist analysis of your data
- Written results report with findings
- Results within 3 working days
- Option to add consultant review at any time
Ideal for those who have already discussed testing with a clinician or who want a rapid, affordable first step. Equipment is returned by post after the study.
£450
Home Sleep Study + Specialist Review
Our most recommended pathway. A complete diagnostic service — from home sleep study through to specialist interpretation, confirmed diagnosis, and a personalised treatment plan from a GMC-registered physician.
- Symptom questionnaire to match the correct study
- Clinically validated equipment posted to your door
- Physiologist analysis of your results
- Full consultant review within 5 days of results
- Detailed report with confirmed diagnosis
- Personalised treatment plan from a sleep specialist
- Treatment referral or CPAP initiation included
- Follow-up consultation available
Gives you everything in one package — no need to make separate decisions after receiving results. The most cost-effective route if you want specialist guidance from the outset.
£250
Speak to a Specialist First
- Initial video consultation with a GMC-registered sleep physician
- Full clinical assessment of your symptoms and history
- Specialist decision on the right diagnostic pathway
- Tailored testing plan explained in full
- Ongoing support and treatment available directly
- Option to integrate with Grace Metabolic programme
Particularly recommended if you have existing cardiac, respiratory or neurological conditions, or if you have previously been investigated without a clear outcome.
- What we diagnose
More than snoring. The full spectrum.
Our home sleep studies identify and differentiate between multiple conditions that share similar presentations. An accurate diagnosis is the foundation of effective treatment — and the same symptoms can have different causes that require different approaches.
The most common sleep-related breathing disorder. Classified by AHI: mild (5–14), moderate (15–30), severe (>30 events per hour).
Snoring without associated sleep apnoea. Still clinically relevant and disruptive — and important to confirm before attributing symptoms to other causes.
Partial airflow reduction events that drop oxygen saturation. Captured in full by our monitoring equipment and central to calculating AHI severity.
Central apnoea that develops or is unmasked after starting CPAP. Important to identify early in the therapy process — addressed through device adjustment.
A subtler form of sleep-disordered breathing — significant resistance without full airway collapse. Often missed on standard tests; our studies detect it.
Apnoea caused by the brain failing to signal the breathing muscles, rather than an airway obstruction. Requires a different treatment approach to OSA.
Apnoea that occurs predominantly on the back or during REM sleep. Identifying this pattern changes the treatment recommendation significantly.
For patients with previous inconclusive studies, CPAP failure, or significant comorbidities, our consultant-first pathway provides a full clinical re-evaluation.
- Treatment
A diagnosis is the
beginning.
Grace Sleep provides access to the full range of evidence-based treatments for obstructive sleep apnoea and snoring. Every treatment plan follows specialist review of your results — nothing is prescribed without clinical justification.
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Continuous positive airway pressure remains the gold-standard treatment for moderate and severe OSA. Grace Sleep provides full CPAP provision, mask fitting, remote setup and six structured clinical touchpoints over 12 months — including remote monitoring throughout.
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A custom-fitted oral device repositions the lower jaw during sleep, maintaining airway patency. Clinically validated for mild to moderate OSA and primary snoring — and preferred by many patients who find CPAP difficult to tolerate. We work with accredited dental sleep medicine providers.
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Weight management, alcohol reduction, sleep position modification, and nasal optimisation can meaningfully reduce OSA severity — and for positional or mild OSA, may be sufficient on their own. We provide structured guidance alongside any clinical treatment pathway.
- Getting started
From first concern
to confirmed diagnosis.
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A brief symptom questionnaire — including validated screening tools — sent instantly to your phone or browser. We use it to match you to the correct sleep study first time, with no wasted tests.
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Clinically validated monitoring equipment dispatched directly to you — anywhere in the UK. Simple to use. No hospital admission. No overnight stay. You sleep in your own bed.
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You post the equipment back. A GMC-registered sleep specialist reviews your data and produces a detailed written report — with confirmed findings, diagnosis, and your personalised next steps.
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If OSA is confirmed, your treatment pathway is initiated directly from your results consultation. CPAP, MAD or lifestyle intervention — we stay with you through treatment, not just testing.
My partner had been telling me I stopped breathing in my sleep for two years. I kept assuming it was nothing serious. Grace Sleep sent the equipment the next day. My AHI came back at 42. I was severely apnoeic. Within six weeks of starting CPAP I felt like a completely different person — I hadn't realised how exhausted and foggy I had become until I finally started sleeping properly.
- Common questions
Before you
get in touch.
The most common signs that snoring may indicate sleep apnoea are waking unrefreshed despite adequate sleep, excessive daytime sleepiness, a bed partner observing pauses in your breathing, morning headaches, and frequent night-time waking. A home sleep study is the only way to confirm or exclude a diagnosis. Many people are surprised to discover significant OSA with surprisingly few daytime symptoms.
No. Grace Sleep is a private clinic and you can book directly without a GP referral. We do recommend informing your GP of any diagnosis so it can be recorded in your medical notes and factored into future care.
For diagnosing obstructive sleep apnoea, a Level 3 home sleep apnoea test is clinically validated and recommended by NICE and the British Sleep Society as the appropriate diagnostic tool in most cases. Full polysomnography — an in-laboratory Level 1 study — is reserved for cases with complex comorbidities, which we identify from your questionnaire and, where needed, from your consultant assessment.
You receive a detailed written report from a GMC-registered sleep physician, including your AHI score, oxygen saturation data, and a personalised treatment plan. If CPAP is recommended, we initiate the full provision and support programme. If a mandibular device or other approach is more appropriate, we arrange this directly.
Yes. Primary snoring — snoring without sleep apnoea — is a real condition that disrupts sleep for both the snorer and their partner. Following a sleep study to exclude OSA, we can recommend appropriate management including positional therapy, weight management support, and, where indicated, referral to an ENT specialist.
Yes. Our CPAP Therapy Service includes a dedicated mask troubleshooting pathway for patients who already have a device but are struggling with comfort, leaks, pressure, or adherence. The most common reason people abandon CPAP is not the device — it is a poorly fitted mask. We assess your anatomy and provide a new one as part of the service.
Yes. Our home sleep studies are available anywhere in the UK, and all consultations are conducted by video. We also see international patients remotely. Equipment is dispatched internationally — contact us to confirm availability and timelines for your location.
Equipment is typically dispatched within 24 hours of booking and pathway completion. Once the equipment is returned, results are reviewed within 48 hours. Most patients complete the full pathway — from booking to written results — within one week.
A brief call with our team is all it takes. We will ask a few questions about your symptoms and recommend the right option — with no obligation to proceed.
Sleep apnoea and snoring diagnosis is one part of our complete sleep medicine offering. If insomnia, circadian disruption, or sleep performance are also affecting you, we can support the full picture.
- Start this week
Your result could
be ready
by Friday.
Equipment delivered tomorrow. Reviewed by a specialist within 48 hours. A diagnosis and treatment plan in your inbox by the end of the week. No waiting list. No referral. No reason to wait.
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